Hon. Alex Colville in 1945.

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Colville exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including the Tate Gallery in London, England and the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing. In 1983 an international touring retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... Peking redirects here. ... The main entrance to the AGO The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Torontos downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. ...

Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National D'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany. This article is about the museum in New York City. ... National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ... Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (in German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ...

Trivia

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• His painting "Horse and Train" (1954), was inspired by two lines from the poet Roy Campbell:

Against a regiment I oppose a brain

And a dark horse against an armored train.

• "Horse and Train" appears on the cover of the album Night Vision by Bruce Cockburn.
• His mural at Mount Allison University, known officially as "The History of Mount Allison" or "The Circuit Rider," features a centrepiece of a very large rear end of a horse. This "horse's ass painting," as it is often known, is viewed by some as brilliant and by some as appalling. Colville chose not to explain the significance of the work.
• In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Colville aligned himself with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a card-carrying party member for many years.
• "Pacific" inspired a scene in the film Heat with actor Robert De Niro.

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