Women at work provided inspiration for Degas. In addition to ballet dancers and cabaret singers, he also painted milliners and dressmakers, laundresses and ironers—such as the young woman here.
Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and More, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto
2025 Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto
In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 22, 43-45, pl. 2. 1990 Powell, Earl A., III
Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector (Boston and Toronto
Thomas Eakins made his career portraying upper-middle class residents of his native Philadelphia. Such depictions are anything but static likenesses;
repro., as The Pathetic Song. 1961 American Painting, 1865-1905, Art Gallery of Toronto
This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly west into the luminous glow of the setting sun. Turner established the quiet mood of the late-afternoon scene with two ivy-covered elm trees, whose soft, feathery leaves and curving limbs frame the painting.
, no. 36, color repro. 2004 Turner, Whistler, Monet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
Boston & Toronto, 1969: 168. Farwell, Beatrice.
Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
1984 Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture, 1745-1820, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work is one of three known paintings from a cycle by Jacopo Tintoretto depicting the personifications of the four Seasons.
Paolo Veronese with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings, Art Gallery of Toronto
