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Visitors in Studies in Solitude: The Art of Depicting Seclusion.
Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre holds over 17,000 works of art, with major concentrations of contemporary and Indigenous art, and Canadian, European and African historical art.

Jane Ash Poitras, T is for Totem Poles, Teepee, 1996, mixed media collage on paper. Purchase, Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund with the support of the Canada Council's Acquisition Assistance Program, 1997 (39-017)
Indigenous Art
Jinny Yu, Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? 2015, ink on fabric and sound. Purchase, the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Grants program and the Donald Murray Shepherd Bequest Fund, 2016 (59-012). Photograph by Darrell Edwards.
Contemporary Art
Sarah Robertson, Montreal QC 1891–Montreal QC 1948, October, Ottawa Valley, around 1937, oil on canvas. Purchase, Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Wintario matching grant, 1978 (21-029) Photo: Paul Litherland
Canadian Historical Art
Rembrandt van Rijn, Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair, 1659, oil on panel. Gift of Linda and Daniel Bader, 2019 (62-002).
European Historical Art
Installation view of With Opened Mouths, 2021
African Historical Art
Zandra Rhodes, Dress, 1973–1976, silk. Gift of Sylvia Gillespie-Keyl, 1999 (C99-001.01). Photo: Bernard Clark
Collection of Canadian Dress and the Heritage Quilt Collection

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