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Agnes Etherington Art Centre : ウィキペディア英語版 | Agnes Etherington Art Centre The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a research-intensive public art museum in Kingston, Ontario, Canada located in the heart of the historic campus of Queen's University. It has a distinguished collection and mounts 12 new exhibitions annually, as well as artists' talks and performances, public lectures, symposia, workshops and school and family programs. The gallery has received a number of awards for its exhibitions from the Canada Council for the Arts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Agnes Etherington Art Centre receives the 2005 York Wilson Endowment Award )〕 the Ontario Association of Art Galleries〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards: 2007 Winners )〕 and others. ==History== The Art Centre has its roots in the Kingston Art and Music Club, founded in 1926, and owes its existence to Agnes McCausland Richardson Etherington (1880–1954), a driving force behind the club.〔("The people behind campus landmarks" ) Queens Journal. Retrieved 4 March 2009.〕 Agnes Etherington's grandfather had founded the grain dealer James Richardson & Sons in 1857 and the family had become very wealthy. Agnes's brother George Richardson, who died fighting in World War I in 1916, left a legacy for her to use as she felt fit to stimulate development of the arts at Queen's University. She used this to found the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, which still provides an important source of arts funding to the university. In her will, Agnes Etherington bequeathed her house, an elegant Neo-Georgian mansion, to Queen's University for use as a university and community art gallery. The Art Centre opened to the public in 1957. The building was extended in 1962, 1975, 1978 and 2000, and now has an area of 1,720 square metres.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Art Centre )〕
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