Bob Rennie Makes Major Art Donation to National Gallery
Bob Rennie, Director, Rennie Foundation
Photo courtesy Rennie Foundation
The National Gallery of Canada announced Monday that it has received art worth $22.8 million from Vancouver collector Bob Rennie and his family, according to a story in the Globe and Mail.
“Rennie picked the gallery in Ottawa because he felt it has the resources to conserve and curate the art, and that a national institution was best placed to lend to regional institutions in Canada as well as making international loans,” Rennie said in the story.
Rennie, who gave $12 million worth of art to the National Gallery in 2017, has given it a further 61 works by Ai Weiwei, Mona Hatoum and Dan Graham, plus 40 works by the late Vancouver artist Rodney Graham.
“This is transformational for us,” said National Gallery director Jean-François Bélisle in the Globe and Mail story.
The new donation comes with the expectation the National Gallery has the resources to lend the work, but there is no stipulation as to how or when the new works will be exhibited. Rennie is also covering the cost to evaluate it and ship it to Ottawa.
Bélisle added that the gallery, which already has one space named in honour of the Rennie family, will name at least one more space after them.
Source: The Globe and Mail
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