News from the RiverBrink Art Museum in the Niagara, Ontario community of Queenston
May, 2015 – In its 32nd year of operation as a fine art museum, RiverBrink Art Museum celebrates the Victoria Day Weekend by offering free admission to the public from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday May 16 through Monday May 18. Victoria Day Weekend also heralds the start of summer hours for the museum, which will be open daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm through October 25.
RiverBrink Art Museam
Four new exhibitions, curated by Debra Antoncic, Associate Curator will be on view throughout the summer season.JOSH SILBURT: ARTIST IN TURBULENT TIMES
May 15 2015 to October 25 2015
This exhibition showcases political cartoons and landscape paintings by Canadian artist Josh Silburt. The exhibition includes examples of Silburt’s political cartoons from both the mainstream and communist press, portraits of prominent sports figures from the 1930s, and landscape paintings. The exhibition is supported by an exhibition of Silburt’s cartoons at the St. Catharines Museum.
Silburt Morning Fog, Otttawa Valley, 1985, Allan Silburt family collection
- Josh Silburt, Morning Fog – Ottawa Valley,1985, Allan Silburt Family Collection
- Josh Silburt, Morning Fog – Ottawa Valley,1985, Allan Silburt Family Collection
- Josh Silburt, Morning Fog – Ottawa Valley,1985, Allan Silburt Family Collection
CARTOONS, CARICATURES, AND SATIRICAL PRINTS
February 19 2015 to February 6 2016
This exhibition, drawn from the permanent collection at RiverBrink, includes caricatures and works of satire in different media. Including 19th and 20th century examples by artists from Great Britain and Canada, the exhibition highlights the diversity of caricature and its value as an effective form of expression.
ARTHUR LISMER: THE ARTIST AS TEACHER
February 19 2015 to February 6 2016
The fourth in a series of exhibitions that explore the work of individual members of the Group of Seven, this exhibition showcases the work of Arthur Lismer (1885-1969).
AVANT LA LETTRE:
CANADIAN LANDSCAPE BEFORE THE GROUP
March 19 2015 to February 28 2016
The Group of Seven has cast a long shadow over landscape painting in Canada. At least since their first exhibition in 1920 in Toronto, the vision of Canada as an unspoiled northern wilderness, a landscape of rocks and trees, of rivers and mountains, has dominated the genre. This exhibition, drawn from the permanent collection, turns attention to earlier explorations of landscape in Canada.
RiverBrink Art Museum is open daily May 16 through October 25, from 10am to 5pm. The museum is located at 116 Queenston Street, Queenston (Niagara-on-the-Lake) (on the Niagara Parkway halfway between Niagara Falls and “Old Town” Niagara-on-the-Lake). Free parking. Wheelchair accessible. Gift Shop.
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