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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92025 Lee Bontecou\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has received a donation of more than 450 works from the collection of the late Torontonians Carol and Morton Rapp. The trove includes examples by a murderer\u2019s row of 20th- and 21st-century artists, including Lee Bontecou, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Roy Lichtenstein, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Yinka Shonibare, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Rapps began collecting prints in the 1960s and expanded their purview to contemporary photography in the 1990s. The new gift comes atop 474 works the couple had already donated. Some 203 artists are represented in the donation, which the museum will use to tell the story of printmaking from its growth in the 1960s and \u201970s through the early 21st century. A number of the works include the artists\u2019 textbook imagery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMore than collectors, Carol and Morton Rapp were stewards of great art, eager to share and preserve the things that brought them pleasure, beauty, and insight,\u201d Stephan Jost, AGO director and CEO, said in a statement. \u201cDuring their lifetimes they contributed immensely to the cultural fabric of Toronto and to the AGO, and this gift by their family is a heartfelt expression of their enduring commitment to this place.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMorton Rapp was a mechanical engineer by training and headed up Smith Belting, which he grew into a chain of machinery parts and distribution centers across Canada. Carol Rapp was an accomplished model, actress, and singer who performed alongside figures such as Nat King Cole and Robert Goulet. The couple also donated many works to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his collecting extended to areas such as antique dictionaries and corkscrews. The couple also endowed a curatorial post at the AGO in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHere are 11 highlights from the gift.<\/p>\n
\tLee Bontecou, Fifth Stone, 1964<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92025 Lee Bontecou\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThree prints and a portfolio of etchings and poems by Bontecou, all produced at the legendary Universal Limiated Art Editions, are among the gift, including Fifth Stone (1964).<\/p>\n
\tDavid Hockney, One Night, 1966<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9David Hockney\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThree early works by the British artist are included, among them two etchings from a suite inspired by Greek poet Constantine Cavafy: One Night (1966) and Two boys aged 23 or 24 (1966). Their subject, gay love, is significant in that the UK Parliament decriminalized homosexuality only in 1967, the year they were published.<\/p>\n
\tJasper Johns, Savarin, 1982<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Jasper Johns\/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society
\n(ARS), NY\/CARCC, Ottawa 2025\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gift includes nine pieces by Johns, including his lithograph Savarin (1982), showing a coffee can full of paintbrushes in front of a characteristic gemoetric background.<\/p>\n
\tWilliam Kentridge, Telephone Lady, 2000<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9William Kentridge\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gift includes three Kentridge works, among them the linocut Telephone Lady (2000), which stands some seven feet high. Also included is Learning the Flute (2003), composed of 110 individually printed sheets, printed on unbound pages from a 1950 edition of Chambers\u2019s Encyclopedia.<\/p>\n
\tRoy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby, 1965<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92025 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein\/DACS, London\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tSweet Dreams, Baby (1965) is a classic example of Lichtenstein\u2019s comic book\u2013inspired imagery.<\/p>\n
\tClaes Oldenburg, Teabag, 1966<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Estate of Claes Oldenburg\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThree Oldenburg works figure among the gift, including Teabag (1966), a sculptural print of screenprinted vinyl and felt on Plexiglas, humorously immortalizing the humblest subject imaginable.<\/p>\n
\tRobert Rauschenberg, Passport, 1967<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tEight Rauschenberg pieces are entering the museum, including his first illustrated book, Shades (1964) and Passport (1967), a screenprint on a Plexiglas sculpture.<\/p>\n
\tYinka Shonibare, Diary Of A Victorian Dandy, 19:00 Hours, 1998<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Yinka Shonibare\/DACS, London\/CARCC, Ottawa 2025\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tShonibare\u2019s photograph Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 19.00 hours (1998) is a satirical take on the famed caricatures of 18th-century English satirist William Hogarth.<\/p>\n
\tKara Walker, Testimony, 2005<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Kara Walker\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tWalker began making her shadow-puppet animations in 2004, and her first film, Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions, from that year, depicted an enslaved young woman who murders her plantation-owning enslaver.<\/p>\n
\tAndy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a92025 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc\/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/CARCC, Ottawa\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gift holds 13 screenprints by Warhol, including four showing screen icon Marilyn Monroe, one of his most recognizable subjects.<\/p>\n
\tRachel Whiteread, Secondhand, 2004<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Rachel Whiteread\/Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tWhiteread\u2019s sculpture Secondhand (2004) is an example of stereolithography, created using a 3D scan of vintage doll house furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has received a donation of more than 450 works from the collection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[92907,442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-135828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-gallery-of-ontario","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}