Frank Porter Wood was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his many gifts and bequests of artworks to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Frank Porter Wood in 1924
Wood's home on Bayview Avenue, which now houses the Crescent School
Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa by Frans Hals, 1626, donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by Wood
The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by Wood
The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West. The building complex takes up 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto, after the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to exhibition spaces, the museum also houses an artist-in-residence office and studio, dining facilities, event spaces, gift shop, library and archives, theatre and lecture hall, research centre, and a workshop.
Dundas Street façade of the AGO in 2023
Image: Art Gallery of Ontario logo
A south view of the first expansion building in 1922
Construction for the Frank Gehry redesign of the museum complex in February 2008