Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Art museum in Charlottetown, Canada
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery is an art museum in Charlottetown that displays Canadian artworks from various periods across several exhibition rooms. The collection includes both contemporary and historical works that can be seen throughout the year.
The museum opened in 1964 and was created to honor the Fathers of Confederation from its start. Over the decades, the collection grew into one of the country's major art holdings.
The collection began in 1964 under founding director Moncrieff Williamson and now numbers over 17,000 works by Canadian artists. It holds the Lucy Maud Montgomery Collection, including sixteen novel manuscripts by the author, and a research collection of works by Robert Harris.
The gallery occupies the northeast pavilion of the Confederation Centre of the Arts, west of Province House, with two entrances: a north door from the street and a south door linking it to the rest of the complex. Its seven exhibition rooms, the Schurman Family Studio and an outdoor sculpture court sit across three storeys.
In 2014 a great-grandchild of Caroline Louisa Daly recognized her signature on a work in the collection, prompting a two-year investigation. The museum then reattributed several paintings to Daly and mounted an exhibition of her work.
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