{"id":643,"date":"2024-02-26T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/?p=643"},"modified":"2024-09-24T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T23:42:37","slug":"art-metrople-thumb-box-exhibition-by-canadian-artists-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholemap.com\/ont\/toronto\/art-metrople-thumb-box-exhibition-by-canadian-artists-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Metrople – Thumb-box exhibition by Canadian Artists – 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While there are no photos of the art, this catalogue – with prices – from the November 11th to 25th, 1911 contains interesting details on the artists and their work. I assume most of the paintings were quite small, painted on location, using a thumb-box to hold the paints and canvas. For reference, the earliest adjusted-for-inflation details I could find only goes back to 1914 – $25 then is worth almost $650 today. I’ve listed out the text of the pamphlet below, and added some details I could find about the artists and their locations at the time, but you can see the original on the Internet Archive here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’ll see the following acronyms: R.C.A. – Royal Canadian Academy of Arts<\/a><\/strong> founded in 1880 and A.R.C.A – Associate Royal Canadian Academy of Arts<\/strong> the only title women were permitted to use at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some other great books related to art and artists in Toronto available on the Internet Archive, including their 148 page catalogue Art Metropole: 1906 Catalogue and price list of colors and materials<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ontario Society of Artists<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, Canada, Catalogue of the thirty-eighth annual exhibition<\/a> (March 5th, 1910) – 50 pages, which includes many of the same painters, as well 25 black and white images of paintings, 4 images of sculptures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit was held in the newly opened at the time Toronto Reference Library at the northwest corner of College and St. George streets<\/a> on September 8, 1909, and was the largest of Ontario’s Carnegie libraries. It is now the Koffler Student Centre at U of T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can browse the Internet Archive for other such catalogues through to the 1923 catalogue (fifty-first exhibition)<\/a> which took place March 10th to April 8th, 1923 at the Art Gallery of Ontario at the Grange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Maxwell Andrew<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Located at 160 First Avenue at the time (between Riverdale<\/a> and Lesliville<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n