MHS Centennial Organization: Winnipeg Art Gallery

In 1912, the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau and Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts announced the opening of a new art gallery and an exhibition of works by Canadian artists, in the Industrial Bureau Building on Main Street. An opening ceremony on 16 December 1912 was attended by Lieutenant Governor Douglas Colin Cameron, Mayor Thomas Russ Deacon, President of the Industrial Bureau William John Bulman, and Royal Canadian Academy representative Homer Ransford Watson.

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
1933-1938	Hugh Farquharson Osler (1881-1943)
1938-?	?
?-1941	John McEachern (1867-1942)
1941-1944	John Young Reid (1872-1945)
1944-1946	W. R. Devenish
1946-1947	John Parton (1878-1962)
c1949	Bernard Charles Scrivener (1883-1969)
1950-1958	John Alexander MacAulay (1892-1978)
1958-1960	?
1960-1963	William Arthur Johnston (1914-1997)
1963-1966	?
1966-?	George Aitken (1906-1984)
?-?	John Alonzo Russell (1907-1966)
?-?	Augustus Searle “Gus” Leach (1939-2021)

Curators

Period	Curator
1932-?	Alexander Johnston Musgrove (1882-1952)

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:

“Announcement,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 December 1912, page 7.

“Winnipeg Art Gallery opens with exhibition,” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 April 1933, page 4.

“H. F. Osler re-elected President of Art Gallery Association,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 February 1937, page 6.

“Officers named by art gallery,” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 April 1941, page 21.

“Art gallery has active year,” Winnipeg Tribune, 25 March 1944, page 17.

“Parton to head art gallery,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 April 1946, page 3.

“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: 7 December 2024