1908
January
The Winnipeg-based Western Art Association forms with a mandate to encourage the development of Canadian and Manitoban art, and adds its voice to...
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1911
May
Artist Claude Gray (a.k.a. art critic VanDyck Brown) reports increasing interest in the establishment of a civic art gallery. Gray trained at...
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November
“Hall of Industry to be Rushed to Completion.”
Located at Main and Water Streets (today William Stephenson Way) and managed by...
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1912
February
Mary Ewart (c. 1872–1939) President of the Western Art Association, delivers a speech to the Local Council of Women on “the value of a...
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April
With the first phase of the Board of Trade Building completed, the Winnipeg Development and Industrial Bureau publishes second-phase expansion...
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October
Winnipeg Development and Industrial Bureau art committee member James McDiarmid (1855–1934) states that the “ideal Winnipeg”...
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December
On December 16, the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts officially opens to the public at the Board of Trade Building, with Lieutenant-Governor Sir...
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1913
June
The Winnipeg School of Art is founded on June 21, with Alexander Musgrove (1881–1952) appointed as both its Principal and, after his...
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December
The Annual Report publishes a list of 37 individuals who each contributed $200 towards becoming Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts and the Winnipeg...
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1914
January
Alexander Musgrove establishes and becomes first president of the Winnipeg Art Students’ Club, later the Winnipeg Sketch Club. The Sketch...
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June
Crowds Flock to the Art Gallery. “Over 1000 people passed through the gallery between 4:30 and 10:00 o’clock. Previous to this 500 or...
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August
Canada enters the Great War.
December
The Gallery opens an exhibition mounted in support of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. Funds raised from art sales go towards the war effort. Prime...
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1916
February
An exhibition of work by mostly Eastern Canadian artists, including William Brymner (1855–1925), Maurice Cullen (1866–1934), and...
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