Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square
Abstract
The author remarks that a visit to an exhibition at the Art Association of Montreal Gallery on Phillips Square at St. Catherine Street, officially opened on May 26, 1879, was one of the chief delights of refined Montrealers during the Edwardian period (1901-1910). The property on which the building stood was donated by Benaiah Gibb (1798-1877), a prominent nineteenth-century city merchant and one of the founders in 1860 of the Art Association of Montreal. However, by 1910, the Phillips Square building was deemed too restrictive, despite an enlargement in 1893, and the Art Association sought a property for a new gallery. A property was purchased on Sherbrooke Street and a new building, designed by Montreal architects Edward Maxwell (1867-1923) and William Sutherland Maxwell (1874-1952), opened on December 9. 1912, as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The old Art Association of Montreal Gallery building on Phillips Square was demolished in the late 1940s.
Publication
Connections: Journal of The Quebec Family History Society
Volume
Vol. 42
Issue
no. 2
Date
February 2020
Pages
11-13
Language
en
Citation
Wilkins, Robert N. “Edwardian Montreal : The Art Association Building on Phillips Square.” Connections: Journal of The Quebec Family History Society, February 2020.
Find in a library
Permalink