Exhibition •
A Collection of Contemporary English Painting
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The first exhibition of the Massey Collection of English Painting (MCEP) in Canada. Its inaugural showing was at The Tate in London earlier in 1946.
It then moved on to Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, London (Ontario), Winnipeg, Windsor, Mount Allison, Kingston and Port Hope before touring to Australia, New Zealand and the USA until 1952.
More details about the artists in the show and its many venues can be found in GOING BRITISH AND BEING MODERN IN THE VISUAL ART SYSTEMS OF CANADA, 1906-1976, a PhD thesis by Sarah A. Stanners, University of Toronto, 2009.
