Artscape Wychwood Barns
The Wychwood Barns share their name with the Toronto neighbourhood near which they stand; two blocks south of St. Clair Avenue West, hemmed in by Christie Street, Wychwood Avenue, and Benson Avenue, and only just north of the small, distinct community known as Wychwood Park. Consisting of twenty-two well treed acres between Davenport Road and St. Clair Avenue (a short distance west of Bathurst Street), the park was established in the 1870s by the English painter Marmaduke Matthews and his friend, Alexander Jardine. The two men bought twelve acres jointly in 1877 (with another ten already belonging to Matthews), and began what they envisioned as an artist colony.
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