The Grange Spring Lecture by Professor Hans de Groot, in the Music Room of the Grange, Art Gallery of Ontario. More than 150 works from the Lonigan collection, the National Gallery of Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum, the ArtGallery of Ontario, and private collections. This event, organised by the William Morris Society of Canada, is aimed at anyone who wishes to gain a broad overview of Morris's life and work. A panel of speakers will give short presentations illustrated with slides and this will be followed by an open discussion. Refreshments will be served.
Admission is free.
For further information, Tel. 416 - 465 0696. Following the centenary conference at Oxford in 1996, the William Morris Society of Canada is now organizing the Morris Millennium Conference as the second international conference to bring together scholars and students of Morris as an artist, writer, socialist, and early ecologist. The conference will be held at the University of Toronto and will include lectures on all aspects of Morris's work, exhibitions of Pre-Raphaelite art, tours of Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architecture. Accommodation will be available on the university campus. A call for papers has been issued.