Community Collects

16 March - 3 June 2012

In 2011, the RMG undertook its first crowd-sourced exhibition and titled it Community Curates. The community was given an opportunity to choose their favourite works from the RMG’s permanent collection. With the final works installed in September, we discovered that our community is passionate about art and chooses well.

This led to the question: what does the community choose for their own walls? Community Collects examines the collection of Deanna Hollister from Whitby. Ms. Hollister has a significant collection of paintings by Emily B. Warren (1869-1956) a British born artist who came to Canada in 1919. Warren was elected as an Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913 and Fellow in 1939 (an honour limited to thirteen artists at any time). Having witnessed the placing of the regimental colours by a Canadian infantry regiment in 1917 in Westminster’s Henry VII Chapel, Warren felt compelled to paint the scene, a work which would eventually be purchased by the Government of Canada and placed in the National Archives. Her lifelong relationship with Canada had begun. She would spend part of each year in Canada from 1919 until her death in 1956 and also travelled extensively, constantly painting wherever she went.

Thanks goes to Deanna Hollister for introducing Emily Warren to our visitors and sharing
her collection.