The Vancouver Art Gallery, the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada, is located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its permanent collection of over 7,900 items includes works by Emily Carr and illustrations by Chagall.
The Art Gallery was founded in 1931. In 1983 the Art Gallery moved to its current location, the former provincial courthouse. This 165,000 square-foot building, originally designed by Francis Rattenbury in 1906, was redesigned by the architect Arthur Erickson.
Plans to expand the Art Gallery were announced in 2003, with the winning architect and design team to be announced in early 2004. The expansion will increase the space the gallery has to exhibit contemporary works and add meeting room space.
External links
Official website (http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/home.cfm)
Joyce Drohan is a Vancouver architect and urban designer who has taught in the City Program at Simon Fraser University and the School for Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.
Herzog has been active in Vancouver'sart scene for more than forty years, while working as a medical photographer from 1957 to 1990.
This exhibition is organized by the VancouverArtGallery and curated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British ColumbiaArt.
One of the collection's strongest elements is the Emily CARR bequest, and a gallery is devoted to an ongoing display of her work.
The original gallery was a small art deco building on West Georgia St. It housed a modest collection of British works purchased for the VancouverArtGallery by Sir Charles Holmes, and featured an exhibition schedule devoted largely to British art trends.
Only recently has the gallery had an acquisitions budget, which is now one of the largest in Canada, and besides having an active exhibition program, the gallery also maintains a library, a slide library and education programs.
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