| 词条 | Helen Gardiner |
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| name = Helen E. Gardiner | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|7|18}} | birth_place = Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|7|22|1938|7|18}} | death_place = Caledon East, Ontario, Canada | death_cause = Cancer | resting_place = Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto | residence = Toronto & Caledon East, Ontario | education = | occupation = Art Collector, Philanthropist | known_for = Gardiner Museum | party = | spouse = 2) George R. Gardiner | children = Lindsay (daughter) | parents = | relations = | boards = |awards = Order of Canada (2007) }} Helen E. Gardiner {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (née McMinn) (July 18, 1938 – July 22, 2008) was a Canadian philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Ontario. BiographyHelen Gardiner was born in 1938 in the Northern mining town of Kirkland Lake to a working family. She later moved to Toronto where her father was employed by General Electric.[1] In 1974, she began attending York University as a mature student, and in 1979, she travelled to London, England to study at Christie's Education.[2] Helen was married to prominent Toronto businessman George R. Gardiner, with whom she co-founded the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.[3] Between 1976 and 1984, George and Helen built a distinctive collection of approximately 1,200 objects in a few carefully selected areas that were collected in depth: ancient Central and South American vessels and figures; tin glazed pottery of the Italian Renaissance; seventeenth-century English pottery; and eighteenth-century European porcelain.[4] In 1981, the Ontario government unanimously passed Bill 183 to establish the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art as an independent, public institution.[5] It was officially opened in 1984 on the grounds of Victoria University, Toronto.[4] "George and I built the museum and gave our collection to the people of Canada, but it was our hope that the Gardiner Museum would contribute in a meaningful way to the understanding and appreciation of ceramic art worldwide."[6] Helen was awarded the Order of Canada in 2007. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2008 at her home in Caledon.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Knelman|first1=Martin|title=Cultural philanthropist Helen Gardiner dies {{!}} Toronto Star|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/07/22/cultural_philanthropist_helen_gardiner_dies.html|website=thestar.com|accessdate=March 19, 2017}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner, Helen}}{{Canada-activist-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Martin|first1=Sandra|title=Helen Gardiner, 70|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/helen-gardiner-70/article25580560/|website=The Globe and Mail|publisher=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=19 March 2017|language=en-ca}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Montgomery|first1=Alexander|title=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|date=2002|publisher=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|isbn=0-9699386-6-7|pages=8–9}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Chilton|first1=Meredith|title=Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture|date=2001|publisher=The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art with Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-09009-9|pages=4}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Montgomery|first1=Alexander|title=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|date=2002|publisher=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|isbn=0-9699386-6-7|pages=9}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Helen|title=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|date=2002|publisher=The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art|isbn=0-9699386-6-7|pages=7}} 10 : People from Kirkland Lake|York University alumni|1938 births|2008 deaths|Members of the Order of Canada|Canadian philanthropists|Deaths from cancer in Ontario|Deaths from pancreatic cancer|Canadian women philanthropists|20th-century philanthropists |
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