The gallery wound up the five-year-old Canadian Photography Institute after art collector David Thomson stopped donating art for the project
A daguerreotype titled Portrait of a Young Girl with Hand on Shoulder, c. 1850. 21.6 x 16.5 cm whole plate. Anonymous gift, 2015.
The disagreement concerns the organization’s degree of independence from the gallery. It was established in 2015 and merged Thomson’s gift with the gallery’s own photography collection under a memorandum of understanding that did not specify who was to appoint the new institute’s director, but did stipulate that both the donor and its chief funder, the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, would review its strategic planning.
But National Gallery director Sasha Suda, appointed in 2019, said Thomson had stopped donating art to the institute the year before, and that its status as an independent organization within the gallery with reporting responsibilities to the donor and to the foundation was not tenable. Portrait of an Unidentified Pair of Prospectors, c. 1860, by unknown. Ferrotype, 8.3 × 10.8 cm quarter-plate. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2015.The photography institute was conceived as a public-private partnership, with Thomson donating a collection devoted to the origins of photography, and the gallery providing the space to store and display the work alongside its own.
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