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Frank Porter Wood

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Late in 1914, Wood and Sir Frank Baillie collaborated with the owners of the Chadwick Brass Company in Hamilton to set up the large Canadian Cartridge Company Limited, of which Sir Frank Baillie became President and Wood Vice-President. Until his death in 1955, Wood continued to participate in the
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Wood and his family were consummately modest; they never spoke of their accolades and were quickly forgotten. Wood, however, will be remembered not for his business accomplishments but for his love of the arts and philanthropy. To this date, he is still the single most generous donor to the
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The records provide a detailed view of the Duveen Brothers business activities in London, Paris, and New York. Although the archive extends from 1876 to 1981, the bulk of the material dates from Joseph Duveen's tenure as president of the firm, 1909–1939, and the period 1939-1964 when
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directed the firm (with Armand Lowengard until 1943). The mass of documents, such as cables and letters, invoices, and ledger and stock books, give an account of art dealing with Frank P Wood. Included are some records from the
91:. In 1910, Wood became President of Burlington Steel. Baillie, Wood and Croft was dissolved at the end of 1915 and taken over by Bankers’ Bond Company Limited of which Wood was made vice-president. 466:
Catalogue of a loan collection of paintings : contributed by private collectors and public institutions in the city of Toronto from January 6th till February 8th, 1920
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From Rembrandt to Renoir in Toronto: Frank P. Wood's role as private collector, public adviser and munificent patron. The private collector and the public institution
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and his brother James Wilton Baillie, a brokerage firm called Baillie Brothers and Company (later Baillie, Wood, and Croft), which operated on the
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In 1897, he started working in Peterborough as a clerk for the Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, established by Senator
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Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California.
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He died on 20 March 1955 in Toronto, and his major bequests to the Art Gallery of Ontario included
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Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig
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Brown, George William; David M. Hayne; Francess G. Halpenny; Ramsay Cook (1966).
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Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings
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Waterhouse, E. K. (Nov 1946). "A Gainsborough Bill for the Prince of Wales".
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Other paintings owned or donated by Wood included artists such as
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Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century
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Canadian businessman and philanthropist (1882 - 1955)
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McCall, George Henry; Adriaan Jacob Barnouw (2005).
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and a former curator of the Art Gallery of Toronto.
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Wood's home on Bayview Avenue, which now houses the
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Crescent School
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto
Peterborough, Ontario
George Albertus Cox
Montreal
National Trust Company
Edward Rogers Wood
Frank Wilton Baillie
Toronto Stock Exchange

Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa
Frans Hals
Art Gallery of Ontario

The Harvest Wagon
Thomas Gainsborough
Art Gallery of Ontario
Queen's University
Joseph Duveen
Beaux-Arts architecture
William Adams Delano
Crescent School
The Harvest Wagon
Thomas Gainsborough
Anthony van Dyck
John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa

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