Setagaya Art Museum
Established in 1922 with a mandate to help dwelling artists, the Hart House Collection contains world-famend works by Canadian artists that are in constant demand for exhibitions and museums around the world. There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries which were developed independently of the help of any particular person museum. Many of those, like American Art Gallery, are attempts to develop galleries of paintings that are encyclopedic or historic in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of up to date artists. The question of the place of the art museum in its…