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Richard Gorman
Spitfire, 1963
84 X 69 in.
Isaacs Gallery

Next door to the Ontario College of Art, the municipal which in the last fourteen years has raised $154,000
gallery has just ended a decade of remarkable progress. for the same end. Thus the gallery has been able to
Until ten years ago its acquisitions came only from develop in harmony with the city's new mood, until
bequests or from endowments that could be spent on today, for instance. among a dozen fine works from
Canadian art alone. But, although there is still no contemporary New York, it can boast a masterpiece
purchase grant from official sources, in 1954 certain like Robert Indiana's Demuth American Dream Number
supporters set up a foundation that now provides over Five.
$60,000 annually for foreign purchase; and since 1945 'AG.T.,' as it is known, has also tackled the task of
the gallery has been blessed with that uniquely North finding a new persona by mounting a number of spec­
American 'let's go· group, the Women's Committee, tacular exhibitions, in which last year was particularly
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