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Prescription art: Take in two museums and call me in the morning

Robert Kertesz, a Montreal retiree, participates in the Art Hive, a drop-in workshop at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts, which has expanded programs that address wellness via art.

The five pavilions that comprise the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one of Canada’s most prominent institutions, draw their share of art lovers, of tourists, and of ragtag school groups.

But they aren’t the only visitors inspecting the fall foliage depicted by Tom Thomson and Canada’s “Group of Seven” artists or experiencing works of French painters from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot to Henri Matisse.

During any given week, there are deaf teens and young adults viewing the works as part of their education in how to overcome obstacles to communication through art. Women with

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