Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Salon Hanging, curated and installed by Roxamy Ibbitson and held at the Owens Art Gallery from 14 May to 11 September 2022.
A floor-to-ceiling feast for the eyes, the Salon Hanging invites visitors to contemplate over 100 works of art, many from the Owens Art Gallery’s original collection, which was acquired in 1893. First assembled in 1884-1885, this collection is one of the oldest collections of its kind in Canada. It features nineteenth-century European and North-American paintings, many still found in their original gilded frames, and full-scale plaster copies of classical Greek sculptures.