page_title: Frank Porter Wood
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Porter Wood / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough
context_page_description: Frank Porter Wood was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is best remembered for his many gifts and bequests of artworks to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
context_section_description: 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 Art Gallery of Ontario. "He is given a place of honour among the earlier collectors of Old Master paintings in Toronto", according to David McTavish of Queen's University and a former curator of the Art Gallery of Toronto.
  Wood was a client of Sir Joseph Duveen. Like most of Duveen's clients, Wood donated his paintings to public institutions, as well as his residence on Bayview Avenue, which was distinguished by its Beaux-Arts architecture (influenced and built by William Adams Delano) and now houses the Crescent School.
  He died on 20 March 1955 in Toronto, and his major bequests to the Art Gallery of Ontario included The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, Daedalus Warning His Son Icarus by Anthony van Dyck, A Portrait of Dr. Joseph Joachim by John Singer Sargent, Portrait of a Gentleman, Isaak Abrahamsz Massa by Frans Hals, Lady with a Lap Dog by Rembrandt van Rijn, and Portrait of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne by Frans Hals.
  Other paintings owned or donated by Wood included artists such as Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Lambert Sustris, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Maurice Utrillo, Claude Monet, Aelbert Cuyp, Auguste Rodin, Francesco Raibolini (known as Francia), Jacopo Comin (Tintoretto), Tiziano Vecelli and Jacob van Ruisdael, to mention only a few.
caption: The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1955 by Wood.
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