In 2003 the gallery was named after Max and Iris Stern. Max Stern was born in Dusseldorf in 1903 and was exposed to art from an early age. His father, who was an art dealer and scholar, founded the Stern Gallery in Dusseldorf. Max followed in his father's footsteps and studied art history in Germany, France and Austria.
Fearing for his life, Max left Germany in 1937 and travelled to Paris and later London, where he joined his sister, Heidi, who co-founded Gallery West. In 1942, he arrived in Canada and made it his adopted homeland. After the Second World War, he retrieved some of his family collection from their gallery in London, and over the years he has managed to retrieve many paintings confiscated by the Nazis from his family’s gallery in Dusseldorf.
In 1946, Max Stern married Iris Westerberg and a year later, in 1947, the couple became the owners of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal.

The gallery, 24 metres long and 3-4 metres wide, makes clever use of its size, with glass walls at obtuse angles flooding the space with light. The gallery is located in the main hall connecting the various departments of the campus, between the Central Library and Beit Maiersdorf.

Mon-Thu, 8:30-20:30