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The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
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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.
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Paris and Montreal
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Fondation BNP Paribas and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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2001
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135p.
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en
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Foreword by Guy Cogeval. |
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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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