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Striking inland up Barrie Street, with City Park on the right, it's a ten-minute walk to the top of the park where the Frontenac County Courthouse of 1858 is another grand limestone pile whose whopping Neoclassical portico is fronted by a fanciful water fountain and surmounted by a copper dome. Head west from here, along Union Street, and you'll soon be in the midst of the Queen's University campus, whose various college buildings fan out in all directions. The place to aim for is the first-rate Agnes Etherington Art Centre , on the corner of University Avenue and Queen's Crescent (Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 1-5pm; $4). The gallery has an excellent reputation for its temporary exhibitions, so paintings are regularly rotated, but the first room (Room 1) usually kicks off in dramatic style with a vivid selection of Canadian Abstract paintings (1940-60), with French-speakers on one side, English on the other. Beyond, Room 2 is strong on the Group of Seven , weighing in with Thomson's painterly Autumn, Algonquin Park , a striking Evening Solitude by Harris and the carpet-like, rolling fields of Lismer's Quebec Village ; and Room 3 focuses on European paintings. Other exhibits to look out for are the Inuit prints of Kenojuak and Pitseolak - two of the best-known Inuit artists of modern times - heritage quilts from eastern Ontario, which date back to 1820, and an excellent collection of West African sculpture.
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