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For the first time the National Gallery will name one of its interior spaces after a donor — or in this case, a family of donors.
At a news conference on Tuesday the Sobey family, which runs a grocery empire from the small town of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, donated $2 million to the National Gallery, bringing the family’s total gifts to the gallery over two decades to $4.2 million. The newest donation from the Sobeys will specifically support artists who represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, which, as a gallery release notes, “is the most important recurring international gathering of the contemporary art community.”
In return, the gallery has broken with tradition and will name an exhibition space after the family — which the gallery has never done before, though the practice is common in galleries and museums around the world. It likely is a necessary, and perhaps even overdue, adaptation to a funding squeeze at the gallery, which has seen the federal allotment that makes up the largest portion of its annual budget frozen for several years now.
“It is with great pride that for the first time in the gallery’s history, we attach the name of a major donor and his family to one of the public spaces of this great institution. The recognition is richly deserved . . . ” said Thomas d’Aquino, chair of the National Gallery Foundation, in a release.
The Sobeys have a long and close relationship with the gallery. Donald Sobey was chair of the board of trustees for 11 years until 2008. In 2012 his daughter-in-law, Marsha Sobey, was appointed to the board as a trustee.
In 2009 the Donald R. Sobey Foundation donated $500,000 to the Donald and Beth Sobey Chief Curator’s Research Endowment, bringing the family’s total support of that fund to $2.2 million.
In 2012, Donald and Beth Sobey donated a prominent work of art to the gallery. Michel de Broin’s Majestic is the huge sculpture — made from metal lamp posts that were torn up by Hurricane Katrina — that sits outside the gallery, near the Ottawa end of the Alexandra Bridge.
The latest $2-million gift from the Donald R. Sobey Foundation will kick start a fund to support the art that is selected to fill the Canadian pavilion at the Venice biennale. “This fund is being endowed with the aim of attracting other philanthropic partners,” a gallery release says.
That will come as a relief to gallery administrators, as finding the funding to support the Venice exhibitions has been a cause of tension at the cash-strapped gallery since it took over responsibility for the biennale several years ago from the Canada Council for the Arts.
More to come . . .
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At a news conference on Tuesday the Sobey family, which runs a grocery empire from the small town of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, donated $2 million to the National Gallery, bringing the family’s total gifts to the gallery over two decades to $4.2 million. The newest donation from the Sobeys will specifically support artists who represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, which, as a gallery release notes, “is the most important recurring international gathering of the contemporary art community.”
In return, the gallery has broken with tradition and will name an exhibition space after the family — which the gallery has never done before, though the practice is common in galleries and museums around the world. It likely is a necessary, and perhaps even overdue, adaptation to a funding squeeze at the gallery, which has seen the federal allotment that makes up the largest portion of its annual budget frozen for several years now.
“It is with great pride that for the first time in the gallery’s history, we attach the name of a major donor and his family to one of the public spaces of this great institution. The recognition is richly deserved . . . ” said Thomas d’Aquino, chair of the National Gallery Foundation, in a release.
The Sobeys have a long and close relationship with the gallery. Donald Sobey was chair of the board of trustees for 11 years until 2008. In 2012 his daughter-in-law, Marsha Sobey, was appointed to the board as a trustee.
In 2009 the Donald R. Sobey Foundation donated $500,000 to the Donald and Beth Sobey Chief Curator’s Research Endowment, bringing the family’s total support of that fund to $2.2 million.
In 2012, Donald and Beth Sobey donated a prominent work of art to the gallery. Michel de Broin’s Majestic is the huge sculpture — made from metal lamp posts that were torn up by Hurricane Katrina — that sits outside the gallery, near the Ottawa end of the Alexandra Bridge.
The latest $2-million gift from the Donald R. Sobey Foundation will kick start a fund to support the art that is selected to fill the Canadian pavilion at the Venice biennale. “This fund is being endowed with the aim of attracting other philanthropic partners,” a gallery release says.
That will come as a relief to gallery administrators, as finding the funding to support the Venice exhibitions has been a cause of tension at the cash-strapped gallery since it took over responsibility for the biennale several years ago from the Canada Council for the Arts.
More to come . . .
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