AGO Art of the Day

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Emile Othon Friez, Seated Nude Combing Hair, date unknown, 42.2 x 30.9 cm, black conté crayon on wove paper, Gift of American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Inc. through the generosity of Dennis and Mary Bunyan, 2006

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Stormy Landscape with a Rainbow, watercolour on wove paper, 19.6 x 27 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Purchased in memory of Alan Flacks, 1999

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Happy Parks Day!

(J.E.H. MacDonald, Mount Goodsir, Yoho Park, 1925, oil on canvas, 107.3 x 122.3 cm, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern, Dominion Gallery, Montreal, 1979, Art Gallery of Ontario)

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Portrait of Henry VIII

(Circle of Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Henry VIII (1491-1547; reigned 1509-47), second half of the 16th century, oil on oak panel, overall: 64 x 51.8 cm (25 3/16 x 20 3/8 in.), Art Gallery of Ontario, Anonymous Gift, 2000)

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Tom Thomson disappeared during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park on July 8, 1917. He made this painting of the lake two years before. (Tom Thomson, Canoe Lake, c. 1915, oil on wood, 21.2 x 26.7 cm, The Thomson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario)

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(James Tissot, Renee Mauperin: The Morning Kiss, 1882, etching on laid paper, 25 x 16.1cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Allan and Sondra Gotlieb, 1994)

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Happy birthday to Prudence Heward, close friend of the Beaver Hall Group and co-founder of the Canadian Group of Painters. At a time when women artists were rarely granted the same artistic status as men, Heward (1896 – 1947) was called “the very best painter we ever had in Canada” by A.Y. Jackson. She was renowned for depictions of strong female figures which had "brilliant acid colours, sculptural treatment, and an intense brooding quality”—though she also painted male studies, as in this portrait of her golf caddy. (Prudence Heward, My Caddy, 1941, oil on canvas, 62.3 x 51.1 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of the Heward Family, Montreal, 1950)

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(David Brown Milne, Camp Porch, 1921, watercolour over graphite on wove paper, 39.4 x 41.6 cm, Gift from the McLean Foundation, 1960)

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Four variations on the beach scene: #MondayMotivation in 36°C Toronto.  (William John Wood, On the Beach, 1938, 55.9x91.4cm, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Miss M. Edna Breithaupt, 1948) (Mary Evelyn Wrinch, Limestone Shore, Bruce Peninsula, oil, 25.4 x 30.5 cm, Gift from J.S. McLean, Canadian Fund, 1954, Art Gallery of Ontario) (James Wilson Morrice, Tangiers, The Beache, 1912, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 72.7 cm, The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario) (James Ensor, Beach at Ostend, c. 1915, oil on canvas, 64 x 84 x 10.5 cm. Anonymous Gift, 1980, Art Gallery of Ontario) — on view in Room 127

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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."—Henry James Happy first day of #Summer ☀️ (David Milne, Summer Green, c. 1910, oil on canvas, 43.2 x 50.8 cm, Gift of David Milne Jr., 2009)

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A Tom Thomson sunrise to brighten the morning.

(Tom Thomson, Morning, c. 1915, oil on composite wood - pulp board)

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(Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard, 1902, 73 x 92 cm, oil on canvas,  Gift of Ethel and Milton Harris, 1990,  © 2016 Art Gallery of Ontario)

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Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1908–1910; cast before 1914, plaster with oil staining, 27.9 x 26 x 22 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, on loan from private collection

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Running home after work like #TGIF #FridayFeeling (Osuitok Ipeelee, Running Man, c. 1982, mottled green stone, 27.2 x 21.9 x 5.1 cm (10 11/16 x 8 5/8 x 2 in.), Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Samuel and Esther Sarick, Toronto, 1996)

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Frederic Marlett Bell-smith, The Sun's Last Kiss, c. 1898, 13.3 x 20.3 cm , oil on panel, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Mrs. Doris Huestis Mills Speirs, 1971

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On this day in 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.

(Louis Valtat, Fleurs des champs, 1913, oil on canvas, 46.1 x 55 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift from the Estate of R. Fraser Elliott, 2005)

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Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens died on this day in 1640. Hanging in our collection on Level 1, "The Massacre of the Innocents" illustrates a story from the New Testament: the massacre of all boys under the age of two in Bethlehem. The artist pits the senselessly brutal and powerful soldiers of King Herod against the fierce mothers and women, protecting their sons in vain. Rubens used figures and poses from famous ancient statues, imbuing the remains of antiquity with violent and energetic unity.

(Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1610, 142 x 182 cm (55 7/8 x 71 5/8 in.), oil on panel, The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario)