MHS Centennial Organization: Winnipeg Art Gallery

An MHS Centennial Organization Award was presented to the Winnipeg Art Gallery on 16 December 2012.

Directors

Period	Director
1950-1953	Alvan C. Eastman (1894-1959)
1953-1974	Ferdinand Eckhardt (1902-1995)
1974-1983	Roger L. Selby (?-1995)

Presidents

Period	President
1950-1958	John Alexander MacAulay (1892-1978)
1958-1960	?
1960-1963	William Arthur Johnston (1914-1997)
1963-1966	?
1966-?	George Aitken (1906-1984)
?-?	Augustus Searle “Gus” Leach (1939-2021)

See also:

The Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1912 and 1987: An Historical Assessment by Angela E. Davis
Manitoba History, Number 17, Spring 1989

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery (300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“Art gallery director due to leave city,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 September 1953.

“Former director of the Art Gallery,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 December 1959, page 37.

Obituary [William Arthur Johnston], Winnipeg Free Press, 31 January 1997, page 38.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 February 2024