Dennis Richard Reid CM (January 3, 1943 – April 27, 2023) was a Canadian curator and art historian whose exhibitions and catalogues were praised by peers as "impressive" and scholarship "coherent"[1] and "commendable".
[5] Reid organized, co-organized, wrote catalogues or contributed essays to numerous exhibitions on subjects such as the art of the Group of Seven (1970), Toronto Painting (1972), Canadian Victorian Painting (1980), A. Y. Jackson (1982), Arthur Lismer (1985), Lawren Harris (1985), Lucius Richard O'Brien (1990) called "magisterial",[7] Krieghoff (1999), and Tom Thomson (2002) and curated exhibitions on a broad range of other artists and subjects in the area of late 19th and 20th century Canadian art such as 20th Century Canadian Painting (1981), co-curated with Jessica Bradley, for tour in Japan: Tokyo, Sapporo and Oita City.
Reid also collaborated on publications such as Visual Art: The Michael Snow Project and Michael Snow Project: Music/Sound: Music/Sound 1948-1993 (both 1994), and Greg Curnoe: Life and Stuff (2001); and many other catalogues[11] as well as co-authoring, with Charles C. Hill, Tom Thomson (2002), which was called "definitive" by Goodreads.
[14] Other awards he received throughout his career include Honorary Fellow of OCAD (the Ontario College of Arts and Design) (2000), an honorary doctorate from the University of Lethbridge (2001),[15] and the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) and Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012).
[5] In 2014, The Vancouver Art Gallery approached Reid to assess the authenticity of ten alleged J. E. H. MacDonald sketches.