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Monthly Docent Tours: Malcove Collection

The Art Museum’s knowledgeable docents look forward to meeting you at our guided walking tours of the Malcove Collection when we able to offer this programming.

Over the course of 50 years, Dr. Lillian Malcove (1902-1981) developed a collection of over 500 objects, comprised of paintings, drawings, furniture, icons, manuscripts, and textiles, as well as sculptural objects in a diversity of materials that reflect her varied interests and prodigious knowledge. Spanning a vast range of art history, from prehistory to the 20th century, the strengths of the Collection are Early Christian, Byzantine and Post Byzantine objects.

Dr. Malcove bequeathed her magnificent collection along with a major endowment, which supports the permanent display of the Collection, to the University of Toronto in 1981 to serve as a useful and inspiring resource for students, faculty and the general public. In 2002, a generous donation by Dr. John Foreman of London, Ontario, added 55 Greek and Russian icons dating from the 16th to 20th centuries to the Malcove Collection. This gift makes the Malcove Collection one of the most important and invaluable resources for students and experts conducting research on Byzantine icons and iconography in Canada.

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University of Toronto Art Centre

Image: Malcove Collection: Dessis and Four Saints, 17th century, tempra, golf leaf, 40 x 31.4 x 29. cm. Gift of Dr. John Foreman.

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