AGO meets goal Jun 27, 2008
A small portion of the extra funds would cover unanticipated construction costs, with the majority going to additions and upgrades including enhanced access to the works of David Milne, a vault-like glass-fronted gallery of 500 Inuit sculptures and a members lounge on the first floor of the historic Grange building. Gallery director and chief executive officer Matthew Teitelbaum said the gallery hopes to raise the additional $22-million by the Nov. 14 reopening ceremony. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
* Jazz blossoms in Taipei Jun 20, 2008
David Milne (USA): Saxophone. John Ruocco (USA): Saxophone, clarinet, flute. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Alluring Elizabeth I portrait fetches more than $5M Nov 26, 2007
A Toronto auction that included works by iconic Canadian artists Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne has become the second highest grossing Canadian fine art auction in history. An early portrait of Queen Elizabeth I that experts believe was commissioned to advertise the monarch to potential suitors sold for more than $5 million in London on Thursday. (CBC News)
Ontario mother who stole baby free on bail Nov 25, 2007
A Toronto auction that included works by iconic Canadian artists Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne has become the second highest grossing Canadian fine art auction in history. France has unveiled a plan that would toss internet users offline if they are caught illegally downloading movies or music. (CBC New Brunswick)
Canadian paintings attract million-dollar sales Nov 25, 2007
TORONTO Paintings by three undisputed masters of Canadian art Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne drew bids exceeding $1-million each last night in Toronto at the final big auction of important Canadian art for the 2007 fall season ... Expectations were high for David Milne's Snow Patches, Boston Corners, New York, and the result was no disappointment: The 1917 oil on canvas sold for $1,437,500, a record. (Globe and Mail)
Signe McMichael, 86 Jul 6, 2007
Signe McMichael was one half of the couple who created the collection of works by Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, David Milne and the Group of Seven, and Inuit and Woodland art and sculpture. She and her husband, Robert, donated 200 paintings to the public in 1965, along with the house that contained them known as Tapawingo (Place of Joy) and the forest in which it sits, about 40 kilometres northwest of Toronto. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Riopelle painting fails to sell at auction May 29, 2007
Works include pieces by David Milne, the Beaver Hall Group, and an abstract piece by Harris that had sat forgotten in a collector's basement for some 40 years. SPECIALS. (Toronto Star)
Not a red-letter day at the auction house May 29, 2007
Also withdrawn from sale were works by such reliable warhorses as Lawren Harris (three early, muddy-coloured works); Cornelius Krieghoff (Falls of Montmorenci couldn't excite more than $70,000, $10,000 short of its reserve, and his Portrait of a Young Woman With Plaid Scarf couldn't clear $19,000); David Milne (whose Lambe's House featured a weird lime-green atypical of Milne's usually subtle coloration); Jean Lemieux (his 1953 painting Les Servantes was a busy, interior scene too unlike his... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Hot market draws out little-known paintings May 23, 2007
Leading a pack of splendid works by David Milne, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr is a large and brilliantly coloured Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II created by Lawren Harris in 1924, which carries a hefty pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1. 2-million. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
McMichael art works taking trip to D.C. May 11, 2007
Toronto Sixty art works, including paintings by Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, Emily Carr and David Milne, are being shipped next month to Washington from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. Twenty-six paintings are going to be displayed in an exhibition at the Canadian embassy called Our Home and Native Land, set to open July 4 and run through early January, 2008. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Eight artists prized for their work Mar 21, 2007
Later, after studying at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Silcox became the Canada Council's first arts officer, set up its jury system, helped establish York University's faculty of fine arts, wrote books on David Milne and the Group of Seven, and served on boards of myriad arts organizations. "The world of art chose me, in a way," he said. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
