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Marie Watt. <em>Blanket Stories: Three Sisters,Cousin Rose, Four Pelts and Sky Woman </em>(previous installation detail), 2005. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a...

Peter Paul Rubens <em>Head of an Old Woman</em>, c.1615 Oil on oak. Purchased 1925, no. 3339

Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

A small but concentrated exhibition that closely...

The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

Since 2000, the Governor General’s Awards in...

Morley Ayearst, bookplate for Viola L. Allen, 1920

Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning...

Rafael Goldchain. <em>Requiem for a Militant, Matagalpa, Nicaragua</em> (1986). Collection Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to...

Itee Pootoogook. <em>Construction Worker</em>(detail), 2009. Coloured pencil and graphite on wove paper, 52.5 x 74.5 cm; image: 42.5 x 64.5 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Reproduced with permission of Dorset Fine Arts. Photo © NGC.

New Voices from the New North

With the assistance of independent curator Heather...

Ashoona, Shuvinai & John Noestheden. <em>Earth and Sky</em>, (detail) February 2008. Pen and black ink, coloured pencil, graphite, collage, and adhered glass crystals on wove paper, 34.3 x 485 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Reproduced with permission of Dorset Fine Arts. Photo © NGC.

Shuvinai Ashoona and John Noestheden: Earth and Sky

The National Gallery of Canada will be presenting a...

Unknown. <em>Astra Torres No. 1 Above Crowd, Issy-les-Moulineaux</em>, c. 1911-1912. Gelatin silver print. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2010. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC.

Leviathans of the Sky: Photographs of Dirigibles from the National Gallery of Canada

In 2010 the National Gallery of Canada received a...

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