York Wilson Endowment Award
The York Wilson Endowment Award enables Canadian art museums and public art galleries to purchase original works by living, contemporary Canadian painters and sculptors. This award of up to $30,000 is given annually, through a Canada Council for the Arts competition, to an eligible Canadian institution to allow it to purchase an original artwork that would significantly enhance its collection of contemporary Canadian art.
The award is drawn from the spendable returns of the York Wilson Endowment. This endowment was established at the Canada Council for the Arts in 1997 through a generous donation by Lela Wilson and the late Maxwell Henderson to honour the contribution of Canadian painter York Wilson (1907-1984) in the field of visual art by encouraging and promoting works of art created by Canadian painters or sculptors.