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Nancy Dillow (Nancy Elizabeth Robertson) was born on 26 June, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian art gallery director and museum curator (1928-2021). Discover Nancy Dillow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

Popular As Nancy Elizabeth Robertson
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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June 1928
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death 27 March, 2021
Died Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Toronto, Ontario

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1870

Her grandfather was Robert Spelman Robertson (1870–1955), Chief Justice of Ontario.

1906

Nancy Elizabeth Robertson was born in Toronto to Fraser Wiliam Robertson (1906–1977), a business writer for The Globe and Mail, and Genevieve Sarah (née Lempke) (1907–1993).

1922

In Regina, she met Harry C. Dillow (1922–2004), a professor at what would later become University of Regina.

1928

Nancy Dillow ( Nancy Elizabeth Robertson; June 26, 1928 – March 27, 2021) was a Canadian museum director, curator and writer.

1952

She graduated from St. Clement's School, then took a B.A. in Art and Archaeology, University of Toronto, graduating in 1952.

1956

In 1956, Dillow was hired by the Art Gallery of Ontario (then the Art Gallery of Toronto).

1958

She worked first as an assistant in the extension program, receiving a Canada Council grant in 1958 to study educational and curatorial methods in three museums in the U.S. (the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Cleveland Museum of Art).

1959

In 1959, she became curator of extension (assistant curator) in charge of the education program and installations and exhibitions organized by the gallery, including a retrospective of Jock Macdonald (1960) and of J. E. H. MacDonald (1966).

1963

In 1963, she was appointed head of the extension department, replacing Stewart Bagnani.

1967

Dillow became director of the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery (now MacKenzie Art Gallery) in Regina, Saskatchewan in February 1967.

At the same time, she was appointed a lecturer in art history at the Regina campus.

1968

They married in London in 1968.

Nancy Dillow died in Toronto, March 27, 2021.

1969

She created exhibitions and catalogues at first working with Robert Welsh, a scholar from University of Toronto; the two organized a show of Piet Mondrian and The Hague School of Painting in 1969.

1971

She then concentrated on Saskatchewan artists; in 1971, in combination with Terry Fenton and Wayne Morgan, she developed a show and catalogue of these artists.

In her role as museum director, Dillow researched the attributions of the paintings in the collection of the Norman Mackenzie Gallery and developed an education program.

She also helped create a new Outreach program, sending works of art and an educator to explain them to rural Saskatchewan, as well as setting up the Rosemont Centre in southern Regina, later a gallery in its own right.

1972

In 1972, she curated an exhibition of eastern Canadian artists at the Edmonton Art Gallery.

That year the National Museums of Canada designated the Norman Mackenzie Gallery an associate museum.

She served on the University of Regina president's committee on campus art, helping to select artwork for display in the campus buildings.

1974

In 1974 she organized an individual show of Marilyn Levine, who was then living in Regina.

Dillow, and the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, were accused by several artists that year of ignoring the work of local artists.

Four ceramic sculptors from the Regina area boycotted an exhibition intended to show the history of ceramic arts in Regina.

Dillow, then in her eighth year as director, admitted the validity of their arguments.

1976

From 1976 to 1978, she served as president of the museums association of Saskatchewan, helping to develop a working relationship with the provincial government.

1978

In 1978, Dillow organized a show and wrote a catalogue of the Saskatchewan Arts Board collection.

She also developed an exhibit of the work of William Perehudoff as well as one of Victorian Illustrators, which she organized with the help of Sybille Pantazzi at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Also in 1978, she was elected president of the Canadian art museum directors association.

1979

In 1979, she left the Mackenzie to become the first chief curator of the Winnipeg Art Gallery where she remained till 1984.

1981

She was made a Fellow of the Canadian Museum Association in 1981.

1982

Each year she put together a show and catalogue on a Winnipeg artist: Ivan Eyre in 1982, Eric Bergman in 1983, and Tony Tascona in 1984; she also wrote a book about Alexander J. Musgrove in 1986.

After Winnipeg, Dillow returned to Toronto.

1991

In 1991 she founded an organization for volunteers at the Textile Museum of Canada.

As at the Art Gallery of Ontario, she trained the docents, acted as docent co-ordinator, assisted in work at the reception desk for ten years and took part in fund-raising efforts, including the yardage sale (now textile bazaar) which she co-ordinated for about 12 years.

2000

In 2000, she received the Museums Association of Saskatchewan Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contribution to Saskatchewan.

2008

In 2008, she was awarded the Ontario Museum Association's Volunteer of the Year award for her service.

2017

When Dillow retired in 2017 from her work with Volunteers at the Textile Museum of Canada, Strand News, the organization's newsletter, wrote a feature article about her.