From Renaissance to Rodin: Celebrating the Tanenbaum Gift
Alison McQueen
With a preface by Lloyd DeWitt
Published by Mr. Joey Tanenbaum
112 pp 56 col. ill. 11.5 x 9.25 in hardcover
978-1-927371-32-9
$37.50 Can. $43.00 U.S. (30 €)
Janaury 2012
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum rank among Canada’s most prominent art collectors. Their donations have transformed many of Canada’s leading cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum. This publication documents the first time the many works donated by the Tanenbaum family have been exhibited together at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The scope is breathtaking: thirty-seven works by thirty artists from eight countries produced from the late fifteenth century to the early twentieth century. As a group, it ranks among the greatest gifts of Old Master paintings to a public museum in Canada’s history and includes works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, and Auguste Rodin. This lavishly illustrated publication includes a scholarly essay and introduction, accompanied by complete documentation. Published to accompany the exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario (1 October 2011–1 April 2012).
Alison McQueen is the author of Empress Eugènie and The Arts (2011) and The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France (2004). Lloyd DeWitt, formerly Associate Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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