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Thursday Tour

Date
27 September, 2018 at 12:15pm - 1:00pm

These free, lunch-hour exhibition tours are available on a drop-in basis.  A friendly and informed community docent will meet you in the Atrium before the guided gallery tour. The is tour is of exhibition, In the Present: The Zacks Gift of 1962. “The importance of this collection cannot be ignored because it shows the very best pieces of contemporary painting—the expression of a time.”—André Biéler, director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1962In the Present features Canadian paintings, drawings and sculptures that were donated, soon after they were made, as part of a larger gift from Samuel and Ayala Zacks. Cutting edge in 1962, these works provided a major boost to the fledgling gallery, then five years old, and continue to be a core of collecting strength for the Agnes.The Zacks gift captures a vibrant moment in Canadian art and reflects the spirit of an age on the cusp of cultural change. Artists were exploring tensions between abstract and figural expression, in a bohemian world of beat poetry, cool jazz and existential thought. Meanwhile, the Space Race, Cold War, civil rights movement, Cuban Revolution and Quiet Revolution unfolded in the news.Represented in the exhibition are artists from across Canada, with works dated 1958 to 1962, including Ron Bloore, Jack Bush, Graham Coughtry, Marcelle Ferron, Richard Gorman, Anne Kahane, Roy Kiyooka, Jock Macdonald, Robert Markle, Jean McEwen, John Meredith, Gordon Rayner, Jean Paul Riopelle, William Ronald, Michael Snow, Harold Town and Tony Urquhart.Curated by Alicia Boutilier, with the research assistance of Anne Robinson, as part of an Art History internship course.[Pictured Above: Jack Bush, Spot on Red, 1960, oil on canvas. Gift of Ayala and Samuel Zacks 1962 (05-025)]Agnes Etherington Art Centre | Queen's University | 36 University Ave, Kingston, ON | 613.533.2190 | aeac@queensu.ca 

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