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Guests of honor at the opening of the Tom Thomson exhibition at the Art Gallery included 89-year-old artist A
Guests of honor at the opening of the Tom Thomson exhibition at the Art Gallery included 89-year-old artist A

Guests of honor at the opening of the Tom Thomson exhibition at the Art Gallery included 89-year-old artist A

Date10/29/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Guests of honor at the opening of the Tom Thomson exhibition at the Art Gallery included 89-year-old artist A. Y. Jackson (left) the grand old man of Canadian painting, Secretary of State Gerald Pelletier and Thomson's sister Margaret Tweedale, seen here talking about showing. Nearly 3,000 attended.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0056978F
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      Davis, William G.
      7/28/1988
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      McConnell, Colin
      7/12/1979
      Tom Thomson's 'The West Wind' is almost a sacred icon of Canadian art, says Dennis Reid (above), curator of historical Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario
      Tom Thomson's 'The West Wind' is almost a sacred icon of Canadian art, says Dennis Reid (above), curator of historical Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario
      Eglinton, Rick
      1/3/1989
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      Darrell, Dick
      9/15/1972
      A highlight of the season at Stratford this year is the exhibition in grounds of Rothman's Art Gallery of sculpture by Dutch artist Karel Appel. Mary (...)
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      Goode, Jeff
      6/6/1972
      Following their, marriage Saturday, Lawrence Litt Lam and the former Patricia Anne Howard, were guests of honor at a reception with an elaborate Chine(...)
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      Combs, Erin
      8/26/1973
      The King and Queen are seen greeting guests at the garden party given in ther honor by Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey Walwyn, at Government House. His majesty wore the uniform of an admiral
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      Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
      6/30/1939
      The guests of honor, Italian ambassador Valerio Brigante Colonna and his wife Anna, travelled from Ottawa for the ball.
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      Mahler, John
      4/18/1989
      Gala dinner for the Petersons. Ontario Premier David Peterson and wife Shelley arrive as guests of honor at a Liberal party fundraiser last night. The(...)
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      Cooper, David
      5/14/1986
      Edmonton artist Robert Sinclair has an exhibition of his work from 1968 until the present day installed in the McLean Gallery of the Art Gallery of On(...)
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      Barkley, Harold
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      Keeping Canadian art alive. Paterson Ewen, 62, has an exhibition of gouged plywood paintings opening at the Art Gallery of Ontario that rank among the(...)
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