A NEW ACQUISITION has enriched both the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the communities it serves. Presented with the opportunity to help the Toronto museum acquire more than 3,500 historic photographs, members of the local black and Caribbean communities stepped up, helping to raise $300,000. The largesse of 27 donors made possible the AGO’s acquisition of The Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs through a gift/purchase arrangement, announced June 5. Spanning a century, the vast collection dates from 1840 to 1940, documenting the region and its people following the abolishment of slavery. The images provide a visual record of the period and the changing economic, political, and cultural environment. UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, “Jamaican Women,” circa 1900 (gelatin silver print, 16.51 cm x 21.59 cm). | Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs. * Purchase 2019, with funds from 27 donors Thirty-four countries are represented, including 23 across the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago, among them—in addition to nations such as Colombia and Venezuela. AGO describes the collection as the largest of its kind outside the Caribbean. Comprised of prints, albums, postcards, daguerreotypes, lantern slides, and stereographs, the collection was assembled over the past decade by Patrick Montgomery, a […]
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