David Mirvish Gallery [SEP] dissolved or abolished
David Mirvish Gallery
David Mirvish Gallery was a contemporary, commercial art gallery run by David Mirvish from 1963 to 1978, within the Markham Street art community on Mirvish Village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Artists at the gallery are best known for Color Field and Post-painterly Abstraction works. Mirvish assembled the Mirvish Collection, consisting of mostly contemporary artwork including artists he represented, lending it out to museums around the United States and Europe after the gallery's closure. In 2012, Mirvish announced plans to open a gallery to
as either closed to the public or viewable on appointment. Anne Mirvish had another building in Mirvish Village to store her sculptures.
Artists collected include Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, David Smith, and Frank Stella. Mirvish has donated works to the National Gallery of Canada, serving on their board from 1993 to 1997. as well as loaning works to public collections. The Fort Worth Art Museum presented "Grand compositions: selections from