This Year’s Most Important Museum Donations From Top International Collectors
Vancouver-based real estate magnate Bob Rennie gifted some 61 works, worth $16.8 million, to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa. Among the most notable is Yinka Shonibare’s American Library (2018), made of roughly 6,000 books wrapped in Dutch wax printed cotton, some 3,200 of which identify immigrants or their descendants who have impacted the culture of North America. Other of the pieces are works by Mona Hatoum—made in the 1980s while in residency at Vancouver’s Western Front—that speak to the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as well as 40 works spanning nearly four decades by the late Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham. This gift tops Rennie’s previous $9.6 million donation to the NGC in 2017, bringing the total of his gifts since 2012 to 260, with a valuation of $25.7 million.
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