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Permanent collection

The museum's permanent collection features over 6,000 works, the majority of which were produced after the 1950s. Many of these works were acquired by the museum through private and public donors. The museum's collection has an emphasis on art that was produced in Alberta, or western Canada. The museum's permanent collection began in 1924, although its growth was slowed during the 1930s and 1940s as a result of the Great Depression and the Second World War. From the 1960s to the 1985, the museum's focused its acquisition efforts on paintings and sculptures of modern art. In 2015, the museum's permanent collection was valued at approximately C$30 million.

The museum's collection of historical Canadian art includes works by Jack Bush, Emily Carr, Henry George Glyde, Illingworth Kerr, Cornelius Krieghoff, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, James Wilson Morrice, Marion Nicoll, Paul Peel, Bill Reid, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Carl Schaefer, Lilias Torrance Newton, and members of the Group of Seven. The museum's collection of modern and contemporary art feature works by Canadian artists including Janet Cardiff, Chris Cran, Marlene Creates, Dean Drever, Aganetha Dyck, Douglas Haynes, Alex Janvier, Brian Jungen, Rita Letendre, Liz Magor, Lyndal Osborne, Jane Ash Poitras, and Takao Tanabe.

From the AGA website:

https://www.youraga.ca/about-aga/collection

Acquisitions have included important works by contemporary Alberta artists such as: Jane Ash Poitras, Allen Ball, Catherine Burgess, Isla Burns, Chris Cran, Clay Ellis, Douglas Haynes, Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Ron Moppett, Lyndal Osborne, Carol Taylor-Lindoe and Peter von Tiesenhausen, as well as comprehensive collections by the photographers Hubert Hohn and Orest Semchishen.

Nationally, the AGA has also acquired the work of a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists including: Marlene Creates, Janet Cardiff, Dean Drever, Brian Jungen, Liz Magor, Kevin Schmidt, Aganetha Dyck, Rita Letendre, and Takao Tanabe.

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