McMaster Art Collection on Tour: On Royals, Retrospectives and Radiation

Crown Princess Mary and the French Ambassador to Denmark, Mr. Francois Zimeray, in attendance at the Ordrupgaard Museum’s opening. McMaster Museum of Art’s Claude Monet painting ‘Waterloo Bridge', is second from left. (Image: Ordrupgaard Museum)

An update on some of McMaster’s art collection currently touring to beautiful venues and new audiences.

Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark
Monet. Beyond Impressionism
August 24, 2016 – December 4, 2016

This exhibition includes McMaster’s Claude Monet painting, Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Soleil, 1903, Gift of Herman Levy O.B.E. more info

photo: Brandi Lee MacDonald (former Research Associate, in Department of Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University), a primary researcher for The Unvarnished Truth exhibition leads a walking tour of the exhibit in Thunder Bay — Brandi Lee MacDonald, a primary researcher for **The Unvarnished Truth** exhibition, leads a walking tour and talk about the exhibit at Thunder Bay Art Gallery. MacDonald was Research Associate, in Department of Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University during the exhibition development. (Image courtesy Thunder Bay Art Gallery)

Thunder Bay Art Gallery
The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Paintings
October 7 – November 27

The Unvarnished Truth is organized and circulated by the McMaster Museum of Art, with support of support of the Museums Assistance Program, Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Arts Council. The touring exhibition travels next to Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queens University in 2017.

Brenda Pelkey, Eiffel Tower and Golden Gate Bridge, Mel Affleck, 1988, Photograph. Gift of the artist © courtesy of the artist

Art Gallery of Windsor
Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective
October 22, 2016 – January 22, 2017

Curated by Catharine Mastin. This exhibition includes two photographs from McMaster Museum of Art’s collection. It will tour to Mount St.Vincent University Art Gallery in 2017 and Art Gallery of Peterborough in 2018.

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McMaster’s Art on Tour: On Royals, Retrospectives, and Radiation

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