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The Mendel Art Gallery was a major creative cultural centre in City Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Operating from 1964 to 2015, it housed a permanent collection of more than 7,500 works of art.
- Gregory Burke, Executive Director & CEO
- 180,000 (2010)
- October 16, 1964
The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Gift of the Mendel family, 1965. Between 1964-2015, the Mendel Art Gallery presented a unique and timely program, gaining a national reputation for its exhibitions and achieving one of the highest per-capita attendance rates in Canada.
Jan 27, 2024 · Over the past six decades, Remai Modern, and its predecessor, the Mendel Art Gallery, have been building a public art collection. Modest in its origin, the collection stems from a single gift: Henri Masson’s small oil painting The Blue House, donated by H. S. Southam to the Saskatoon Art Centre in 1947. “When the Mendel Art Gallery opened ...
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The Mendel collection, now known as the Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern, was the permanent collection of the former Mendel Art Gallery and was inherited by Remai Modern. The Mendel collection includes the historical works in Remai Modern's collection, with most of the works dating back to the early 20th century. [21]
- Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
- Bruce Kuwabara
- 9 July 2009; 14 years ago
May 22, 2015 · The Mendel Art Gallery opened in October 1964. A new book has been written about Saskatoon's Mendel Art Gallery. Dreaming a Gallery , by arts advocate Helen "Bubs" Coleman, is an...
Remai Modern’s collecting activities began in 2014, building on the legacy of the Mendel Art Gallery’s 51-year history in Saskatoon (1964-2015). In 1965, the Mendel family donated 13 paintings to form the nucleus for the permanent collection, including work by prominent Canadian modernists.
The Saskatoon Art Gallery and Civic Conservatory opened to an enthusiastic public on October 16, 1964, and soon became known as the Mendel Art Gallery. The following year, the Mendel family made a significant donation of 13 paintings from an extensive private collection: today called The Mendel Gift.
