Monday, July 22, 2013

The various pieces of artwork in the Bora Laskin Law Library, Portrait of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, by Duncan MacPherson, The Supremes, by Charles Pachter (donated by McMillan Binch) and several in Flavelle have been carefully packed up, moved and stored at the University of Toronto Art Centre.

Collections manager Heather Darling Pigat supervised the move last week. Seven pieces in total were removed for safe storage during the renewal project, and included the two in the rotunda area, Untitled by Claude Simard (purchased and donated by the Class of 1989), Potentate Set by Harold Town (donated by the Hon. Justice Sydney and Gloria Robins) and from the Faculty Lounge, Pond by Joseph Raffael. 

Pigat says she hopes to bring out some of these paintings in a fall exhibition at UTAC. “It’s a great way for staff, faculty, students and the public to see some of the nearly 700 works in the University of Toronto Art Collection that are available for loan to on-campus borrowers through the Art on Campus Program.”

The portraits of the Flavelles hanging in the dining room are also in storage, while all the deans’ portraits will be moved and displayed in the Birge-Carnegie Building, the Victoria University transitional space for law classes, student common areas and lectures for the next two years.

Prior to packing up the artwork, Pigat filed condition reports for each one, and in this video, she discovers more than Harold Town’s signature.

(Or watch the video on the YouTube site)