The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from Bob Rennie, one of the country’s leading art collectors, and his family. The donated works include 17 works by Christopher Williams, two works by Kerry James Marshall, four by Brian Jungen, and one by Jin-me Yoon. With this gift, the Rennie family has now given the museum 284 works since 2012. “This gift follows one of the core missions of the collection,” Bob Rennie, who has appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year since 2015, said in a statement. “Any work leaving the Rennie Collection must go to a better home and with a better custodian than ours.” Related Articles NGC director and CEO Jean-François Bélisle called the donation “a landmark and deeply inspiring gift” in a statement, adding that “Bob Rennie’s clarity of vision and long-standing commitment to artists at pivotal moments in their careers have helped shape one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in Canada. The works entrusted to us today are powerful, ambitious, …