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Among the many attractions in Vancouver, the art gallery located at 750 Hornby Street, one of the largest and most interesting art galleries in Canada, undoubtedly deserves the closest attention.

The Vancouver Art Gallery was founded in 1931 and is housed in a small building at 1145 West Georgia Street. 20 years later, in an effort to expand the exhibition space, the original building underwent significant changes, but the gallery's collection grew rapidly, and the question of expansion has become relevant again. In 1983, the new home of the Vancouver Art Gallery was the magnificent neoclassical former courthouse on Hornby Street, built back in 1906 to a design by Francis Rattenbury. The gallery moved to Hornby Street after a large-scale courthouse renovation under the direction of Arthur Erickson as part of the modernization of Robson Square.

The gallery's collection includes more than 10,000 exhibits - paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and other works of art. A significant part of the collection is the work of Canadian masters, including Emily Carr (Vancouver gallery owns the largest collection of her works), Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, John Vanderpant, David Milne, Harold Towne, Th é ophile Hamel, Anthony Plaimon Guido Molinari, as well as works of the so-called "Group of Seven" and many others. There are also works by such prominent representatives of the Dutch "golden age" as Jan Ravestein, Jan Weinants, Isaac van Ostade, Peter Nifs, Abraham Stork, as well as the works of the famous Japanese photographer Eiko Hosoe and the first edition of "The Disaster of War" by Francisco Goya.

The Art Gallery and an excellent library are famous - 45,000 volumes of specialized literature, an impressive selection of periodicals, exhibition and auction catalogs, slides, and etc. The museum regularly hosts various temporary exhibitions, as well as educational programs and lectures.

Unfortunately, today only a small part of the gallery's treasures is on display and a new spacious building is planned for the foreseeable future.

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