A master work by Salvador Dali as well as others by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Eugene Delacroix, and an array of historical Canadian artists are highlights of a major summer exhibit opening tomorrow at Whistler's new Audain Art Museum. 

On Saturday (June 18), the Audain Art Museum opens Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to the public. It's a rare West Coast showing of 75 works that were collected by Lord Beaverbrook (the press baron and Winston Churchill confidant) and that now reside in Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

The big draw is Dali’s monumental painting Santiago El Grande, which stands 13 feet tall. Other names on view include Gainsborough, Constable, Reynolds, Sargent, Sisley, Turner and Freud; Canadian artists including Krieghoff, Morrice, Carr, Milne, and Gagnon, as well as members of the Group of Seven.