• Ann MacIntosh Duff: 1925 -2022 is a celebration of MacIntosh Duff's remarkable seven-decade-long career, highlighting her profound connection with the landscape and honouring her steady commitment to her practice. This exhibition showcases a range of subjects, with works created in her home studio in Toronto as well as on Scotch Pine Island, Georgian Bay where she spent every summer. 
  • Ann MacIntosh Duff, Camera and Mexican Plate, 1992

    Ann MacIntosh Duff

    Camera and Mexican Plate, 1992
    watercolour on paper
    22 x 30 in.
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  • "I think you can look at someone like Ann MacIntosh Duff and see this kind of tender address of the natural world that is at odds with the tradition and is in a way, a kind of corrective.”
     
    - Sarah Milroy, Chief Curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
    In Lucid: The Watercolours of Ann MacIntosh Duff, a film by Nicholas de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal
    • Ann MacIntosh Duff Reading Late, c.1977 watercolour on paper 22 x 30 in.
      Ann MacIntosh Duff
      Reading Late, c.1977
      watercolour on paper
      22 x 30 in.
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    • Ann MacIntosh Duff Line Storm Coming, 1994 watercolour on paper 22 1/4 x 30 in.
      Ann MacIntosh Duff
      Line Storm Coming, 1994
      watercolour on paper
      22 1/4 x 30 in.
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  • Ann MacIntosh Duff, Dockside, c. 1960

    Ann MacIntosh Duff

    Dockside, c. 1960
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  • Ann MacIntosh Duff, Windy Day, 2004

    Ann MacIntosh Duff

    Windy Day, 2004
    watercolour on paper
    22 x 30 in.
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  • In 2022, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection acquired over 200 of MacIntosh Duff’s watercolours making it the largest collection of her work in the country. This fall the museum will release a comprehensive publication, Ann MacIntosh Duff, on her life and work.

  • Ann MacIntosh Duff, Cruising Along, c. 1990

    Ann MacIntosh Duff

    Cruising Along, c. 1990
    watercolour on paper
    22 x 30 in.
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    • Ann MacIntosh Duff Abstract Still Life, c. 1982 watercolour on paper 22 x 30 in.
      Ann MacIntosh Duff
      Abstract Still Life, c. 1982
      watercolour on paper
      22 x 30 in.
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    • Ann MacIntosh Duff New Years at Manitou, Quebec, 1990 watercolour on paper 22 x 30 in.
      Ann MacIntosh Duff
      New Years at Manitou, Quebec, 1990
      watercolour on paper
      22 x 30 in.
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  • Ann MacIntosh Duff (1925 - 2022) specialized in the medium of watercolour, painting landscapes and still lifes from memory rather...

    John Hartman, Ann MacIntosh Duff at Scotch Pine Island, 2014

    Ann MacIntosh Duff (1925 - 2022) specialized in the medium of watercolour, painting landscapes and still lifes from memory rather than observation. For most of her career, MacIntosh Duff divided her time between her two studios in Georgian Bay and Toronto. MacIntosh Duff often included objects with symbolic and universal meanings in her work; binoculars, cameras and telescopes all allude to different ways of seeing the world.
     
    Ann MacIntosh Duff was born in Toronto in 1925. In 1952, MacIntosh Duff became a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) where she remained an active member for thirty years. In 1959, she began working with Douglas Duncan at the Picture Loan Society, one of the most influential galleries in Canada at the time which also showed works by David Milne, Harold Town, Bertram Brooker and Paul-Émile Borduas. She exhibited there until Duncan’s death in 1968. In 2007, the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery held, To Love and To Cherish, a retrospective of MacIntosh Duff’s work.  In 2022, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection acquired over 200 of MacIntosh Duff’s watercolours making it the largest collection of her work in the country. In 2023, the institution held a major survey of her work. This fall the museum will release a comprehensive publication, Ann MacIntosh Duff, on her life and work.