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George Heriot, La danse ronde à l'interieur, ca. 1801, watercolour over graphite on paper, laid down, 21.0 cm x 32.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1970, 1970.018

Prudence Heward, Sisters of Rural Quebec (aka Rollande and Pierrette), 1930, oil on canvas, 157.0 cm x 107.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1962, 1962.016

Frederick Verner, Untitled (River Scene, Sunset), 1891, watercolour over graphite on paper, 34.0 cm x 69.0 cm
Purchased with funds donated by the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1970, 1970.098

James E.H. MacDonald, Logs on the Gatineau, 1914, oil on board, 19.0 cm x 24.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1971, 1971.029

Otto R. Jacobi, Laurentian Mountains (On the Gatineau), 1867, oil on canvas, 66.0 cm x 104.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Junior Women's Committee, 1972, 1972.026

Homer Watson, Near Twilight, B.C., c. 1934, oil on masonite, 86.0 cm x 112.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1962, 1962.030

Grace Melvin, Mating Season -- Seagull Rocks, date unknown, ballpoint ink on paper
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery Women's Committee, 1965, 1965.012

Goodridge Roberts, Still Life with Detail from Velazquez Print, 1963, oil on masonite, 122.0 cm x 91.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Junior Women's Committee, in memory of Mrs. W.R. Campbell, 1965, 1965.032

James E.H. MacDonald, Cabin in the Northland, date unknown, tempera on illustration board, 21.0 cm x 25.0 cm
Gift of Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1966, 1966.019

David Milne, Monkey and Tiger Lilies, 1924, oil on canvas, 41.0 cm x 51.0 cm
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Windsor Art Association, 1957, 1957.002

David Milne, Carnival, Dominion Square, Montreal, 1924, oil on canvas, 41.0 cm x 51.0 cm
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Windsor Art Association, 1957, 1957.003

Bruno Bobak, Rocks in a Stream, 1952, watercolour and ink on paper, 22.0 cm x 29.0 cm
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Windsor Art Association, 1958, 1958.019

William Kurelek, Ukrainian Farmer's Wife in Prairie Winter, 1966, mixed media on masonite, 122.0 cm x 244.0 cm
Purchased with funds donated by the Art Gallery of Windsor Volunteer Committee and with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture and Recreation through Wintario, 1979, 1979.022

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Sans titre, 1960, oil on canvas, 60.0 cm x 92.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1973, 1973.017

Clare Bice, Clearing Mist, Monhegan, 1950 c., oil on board, 41.0 cm x 51.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1977, 1977.009

Arthur Lismer, Tide Pools, Vancouver Island, 1960, ink on paper, 30.0 cm x 42.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Junior Women's Committee, 1962, 1962.021

Arthur Lismer, Tide Pools, Vancouver Island, 1960, oil on canvas board, 41.0 cm x 51.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Junior Women's Committee, 1962, 1962.020

Ted Bieler, Circuit, date unknown, cast bronze on monolithic base, 27.0 cm x 34.0 cm
Gift of the Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1968, 1968.048

Niviaksiak, Man Hunting at a Seal Hole in the Ice, 1959, colour skin stencil on paper, 7/30, 61.0 cm x 46.0 cm
Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1960, 1960.005

Unknown (Inuit; Puvirnituq), Hunter with Spyglass, date unknown, soapstone and wood, 23.0 cm x 12.0 cm
Gift of the Women's Committee of the Windsor Art Association, 1957, 1957.004

Albert Franck, McMurrich Street, Toronto, 1963, oil on masonite, 51.0 cm x 61.0 cm
Given in memory of Mrs. W.R. Campbell by the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor Women's Committee, 1964, 1964.015

Clare Bice, Approaching Storm, Monhegan, ca. 1950, oil on canvas, 64.0 cm x 77.0 cm
Gift of the artist's family, 1977, 1977.008

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“The Ladies, God Bless Them”
Women’s Volunteerism and Collections Development at the AGW (1950s-70s)

October 4, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Location: Charles & Ethel Cohen Family Gallery, 3rd floor

Sponsored by the AGW's Volunteer Committee

The Women's and Junior Women's Volunteer Committees, formed in 1950 and 1956 respectively, made significant financial and social contributions to developing the AGW's Canadian art collection during the 1950s-1970s. This exhibition profiles the support these groups gave to the Gallery's first curator, Daphne Hein, and the long-term director-curator of 40 years, Kenneth Saltmarche. Through their combined efforts, important works by such noted Canadian artists as William Kurelek, David Milne, Arthur Lismer, George Heriot, Prudence Heward, Homer Watson and Jean-Paul Riopelle were purchased. These committees were the backbone behind some of the Gallery's most important collecting, and Saltmarche knew all too well that his success as a judicious aesthete with aspirations to form a major public art collection was dependent on this chapter of the Gallery's history as a women's movement.

An e-publication accompanies this exhibition, exploring the gendered histories of waged and unwaged work at the AGW, while also profiling Saltmarche's vision for the formation of a Canadian art collection.

Curated by Catharine Mastin.