The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Abstract
The history of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts traces its roots to the creation in 1860 of the Art Association of Montreal by a group of Anglophones, headed by Anglican Bishop Francis Fulford (1803-1868), who set up the association devoted to the spread of the fine arts in the city. In 1877, Montreal merchant Benaiah Gibb donated a building site on the north-east corner of Phillips Square and the sum of money of $8,000, along with his art collection consisting of seventy-two canvases and four bronzes, for the establishment of a permanent arts museum. In 1912, the museum moved to its current location on Sherbrooke Street West.
Place
Paris and Montreal
Publisher
Fondation BNP Paribas and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Date
2001
# of Pages
135p.
Language
en
Notes

Foreword by Guy Cogeval.

Citation
Bondil, Nathalie, and Hélène Lamarche. The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. Translated by Margaret Clarke. Paris and Montreal: Fondation BNP Paribas and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.
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