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York University (Toronto, Ont.). President' s Art Advisory Committee
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1962-
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The Art Advisory Committee (also known as the Advisory Committee on Art and the Fine Arts Committee) was promoted by President Murray G.Ross in 1962 when he asked several York faculty and friends to guide the planners and architects in acquiring works of art to accompany new buildings being erected on the Glendon and main campuses of the university, encourage the donation of gifts of art to the university, and arrange for exhibitions and lectures. The University had committed itself to spending.5% of its annual budget on the acquisition of art, and the committee drafted principles in 1964 on art acquisition: art for the campus was to be contemporary with an emphasis on Canadian, human in scale, integrated with the architecture and landscape of the university, imageable (giving each part of the campus a clear identity), democratic (seen by the largest possible community), flexible and adaptable.
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2019/06/11 J. Grant. Creation.