News from Niagara, Ontario’s RiverBrink Art Musuem
QUEENSTON (NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE), Ontario, March 27th, 2014 – 2014 -. RiverBrink Art Museum will be extending the run of two of its popular 2013 exhibitions into April 2014. “Norval Morrisseau: Journey with a Genius” will be extended an extra week, closing on April 5, 2014. “Sam Weir, The Consummate Collector” will be extended an extra three weeks, closing on April 19.
One of the wonderful pieces, this one by Homer Watson, known as ‘The Lothian Hills’, featured in this exhibit. Image courtgesy of RiverBrink Art Museum
“Sam Weir, The Consummate Collector”
Since the death of Samuel E. Weir in 1981, the collection he left behind has been interpreted and displayed with attention to the founder’s tastes, interests, and passions for fine art and history. The current exhibition extends this focus to include the range of objects collected by Weir throughout his life. His interest was caught by fine and decorative art to be sure, but also rare books, silver, medals, coins, stamps, historic documents, bird decoys, horticultural specimens, furniture and even celebrity autographs. This diversity suggests Weir is best understood as an example of what historians Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman describe as the “unruly” collector. Closing April 19. 2014.
“Norval Morrisseau: Journey with a Genius”
Richard Baker’s collection of paintings and prints by Norval Morrisseau, on loan to RiverBrink, charts a personal and professional relationship that began when Richard was just starting his career as a lawyer. Over the years he acquired several important art works by Morrisseau and an equal number of stories about the artist’s life and work. In the process, Richard developed an interest in art and an appreciation for Morrisseau’s achievements as an innovator, an experience expressed in the title “Journey with a Genius.” Closing April 5, 2014.
RiverBrink Art 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). It is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Admission: Adults $5.00, Seniors and Students $4.00, under 12 free. Free parking. Wheelchair accessible. For more information, please contact RiverBrinkArt Museum by phone at 905-262-4510 or by email at info@riverbrink.org.
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