Images clockwise from left: Wilfrid Flood, Self-Portrait, c.1942. Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery. Photo: David Barbour; Nasrin Himada; Wilfrid Flood, Paper Mill, Thurso, Quebec, 1944. Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery. Photo: David Barbour.
Our editors’ weekly roundup of Canadian art news.
Philanthropist Michal Hornstein, a board member of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and member of the Order of Canada, died at his home in Montreal on Monday at the age of 95. A Holocaust survivor, Hornstein founded a real-estate company after moving to Montreal, and went on become one of the city’s biggest art benefactors, donating some 450 works to the MMFA and supporting the museum’s new pavilion, which will open in November. The museum will host a shiva for Hornstein on Sunday.
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre unveiled a recently donated painting by Rembrandt van Rijn on Friday. Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo (1658) was gifted to the gallery last fall by patrons Alfred and Isabel Bader, and it will hang in a permanent installation alongside the Queen’s University gallery’s two other Rembrandt paintings. Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo was in a private collection for some 40 years after being sold by Columbia University in 1974.
The Ottawa Art Gallery has received a large gift of 88 paintings and sketches by Ottawa artist Wilfrid Flood (1904–46). Bequeathed by Flood’s daughter Francesca and her husband, George Heaslip, the works are largely watercolours and they “evoke a strong sense of Ottawa and surrounding region during a period of great change,” says OAG’s director and CEO, Alexandra Badzak.
Art Metropole announced on Monday that writer and curator Nasrin Himada will join the organization as shop manager and curator. Based in Montreal, Himada’s research interests are “Palestinian cinema, art and poetics, and the militarization of urban space through prison infrastructure and police surveillance.” She has curated work at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Echo Park Film Center and 16 Beaver. She also co-edited the inaugural issue of MICE.
