In this short video the Gallery's Senior Designer, Ellen Treciokas, takes us behind the scenes to look at how the Gallery designed 2012's summer blockbuster show.
The house was packed and the crowds were happy. Check out this video with some of the highlights from the evening and listen to a few comments from the crowds that attended.
The painting Portrait of Countess Nikolai Alexandrovich Tolstoy, née Princess Anna Ivanovna Bariatinska (1774-1825) [1796] by Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun is visiting the National Gallery of Canada on special...
How is a priceless painting prepared for travel? How is it packaged, transported, and cared for along the way? For a behind the scenes look at how this journey was completed, watch this short film .
This autumn a fresh breeze swept through the galleries of Canadian Art. Since late October, visitors have been admiring a new layout of rooms devoted to the display of early Canadian art from the Maritimes and...
Van Gogh identified with the Japanese approach to understanding nature by starting with the single blade of grass as a basis for moving outwards to comprehend nature as a whole.
Deep in the Gallery’s archives sits a hand-written note from Dutch art dealer Peter Eilers. He appears to have written it in the fall of 1953 while on board the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth en route to New York...
