In the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Monet: A Bridge to Modernity , on view until February 15, Jules Andrieu’s photographs of ruins in and around Paris, selected from the Gallery`s own collection,...
In this video Stephen Gritt, the National Gallery of Canada’s Director of Conservation and Technical Research, discusses the restoration of Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: the Sun in a Fog (1903). The painting...
Young Canadian artists from across the country have answered the National Gallery’s recent call by picking up pencils, paintbrushes, ink jars and cameras to create some highly expressive works of art. The...
Images are central to our modern lives in ways that earlier generations could scarcely have imagined. Thanks to major gifts from Scotiabank and collector David Thomson, the new Canadian Photography Institute...
This exhibition, on at the National Gallery of Canada Library until March 2016, offers a rare glimpse of Pre-Raphaelite book and magazine illustrations published during the second half of the nineteenth...
French artist Sophie Ristelhueber has long chosen to leave humans out of the picture, focusing instead on their traces left behind. The title Fait has a double meaning. The word is French for both fact and...
Dr. Sonia Del Re is Associate Curator of European, American, and Asian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery, and oversees a collection of about 15 000 works on paper. Dr. Del Re is curator of Beauty's...
Monet: A Bridge to Modernity is a National Gallery of Canada exhibition that looks at 12 paintings by the French Impressionist painter, most of them made over a three-year period, from 1872 to 1874, when Monet...
The National Gallery of Canada is home to an extraordinary collection of 19th-century British drawings, thanks in part to a generous donation from collector Dennis T. Lanigan. Dr. Lanigan has been collecting...
Just after the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Claude Monet returned to Paris from England. The artist began experimenting with a style of painting that would see him become one of the leaders of the...
