MacLaren Art Centre
Encyclopedia
The MacLaren Art Centre is an art gallery and museum, located in Barrie
, Ontario
, Canada
. It houses many important Canadian works of art, and is the permanent home to a cast of Rodin
's The Thinker
.
It is named in honour of Maurice MacLaren, who bequeathed his Victorian home, Maple Hill, to the Barrie Gallery Project. The MacLaren Art Centre later moved to the former City of Barrie library, a Carnegie building, and added to it; the new gallery opened in September 2001. The first piece in the gallery's collection is the Spirit Catcher
, a sculpture of a thunderbird, first displayed at Expo '86 in Vancouver, and donated by the Peacock Foundation.
The Barrie Gallery Project was a group of citizens who wanted to create an art gallery in Barrie, a rapidly growing city in Southern Ontario, in the mid-1980s. The group hired a Georgian College School of Design and Visual Arts instructor William Moore, who became the gallery's first executive director. Moore won a City of Barrie Arts Award in November 2008 for his work in setting up the gallery, its educational outreach program and public-spaces arts programs.
Barrie
Barrie may refer to:* Barrie, city in Ontario, Canada* Barrie , Canadian federal electoral district* Barrie , provincial electoral district* Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, former Canadian electoral district...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It houses many important Canadian works of art, and is the permanent home to a cast of Rodin
Auguste Rodin
François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
's The Thinker
The Thinker
The Thinker is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, whose first cast, of 1902, is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris; there are some twenty other original castings as well as various other versions, studies, and posthumous castings. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a...
.
It is named in honour of Maurice MacLaren, who bequeathed his Victorian home, Maple Hill, to the Barrie Gallery Project. The MacLaren Art Centre later moved to the former City of Barrie library, a Carnegie building, and added to it; the new gallery opened in September 2001. The first piece in the gallery's collection is the Spirit Catcher
Spirit Catcher
Ron Baird's Spirit Catcher is a sculpture originally created by sculptor Ron Baird for Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is now situated on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, in Barrie, Ontario, Canada....
, a sculpture of a thunderbird, first displayed at Expo '86 in Vancouver, and donated by the Peacock Foundation.
The Barrie Gallery Project was a group of citizens who wanted to create an art gallery in Barrie, a rapidly growing city in Southern Ontario, in the mid-1980s. The group hired a Georgian College School of Design and Visual Arts instructor William Moore, who became the gallery's first executive director. Moore won a City of Barrie Arts Award in November 2008 for his work in setting up the gallery, its educational outreach program and public-spaces arts programs.