Canada Day Art Quiz (2016)

Emily Carr

1.  Which is Canada’s oldest civic art gallery? (Regular readers of The Art Caravan should know this one!)

2. When was the ‘new’ National Gallery of Canada opened?  (Bonus question:  Who was the architect?)

3. In which city is the National Portrait Gallery located?

4. Prudence Heward, Anne Savage, Kathleen Morris and Lillian Torrance Newton were all members of which Canadian Modernist art group?

5. Why weren’t Prudence Heward and other women artists invited to join the Group of Seven?

6. Who are the Woodlands group of artists?  (Bonus question:  Name two artists from this group.)

7.  Which Canadian art gallery has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world?

8. Two significant, privately funded art galleries have opened in western Canada in the last five years.  What are they called and where are they located?

9.  Who is your favourite Canadian artist (deceased?)

10. Who is your favourite contemporary Canadian artist?

Have fun!  Answers  will be posted later today.