A talented writer and composer, and the first Black Briton to vote in national elections, Ignatius Sancho’s portrait by Thomas Gainsborough was an early acquisition by the Gallery.
Ten years after his sketch of the Lake Garda shoreline in 1899, Otto Greiner used the landscape drawing as the background for his painting of Prometheus.
Seeing Karsh's photographs of Picasso and Riopelle alongside examples of preliminary sketches by these artists can give viewers a different, broader perspective of them and their work.
Allan Edson's painting “Shawinigan Falls” is a rare example by this artist, who was considered one of the great Canadian landscape painters of the 19th-century.
In her work, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles reflects on the voiceless victims and tragic deaths in her native country, set against the backdrop of endemic violence, feminicide and social injustice.
One of the most sought-after portrait painters of his generation, Glyn Philpot modernized the genre through his choice of subjects and an open expression of his homosexuality.
Judy Anderson's "Exploit Robe (Toying Around)" articulates and carries forward the deeply meaningful tradition of honouring relationship of family, and in particular of mother and child.
![Teresa Margolles, La búsqueda (2) [The Search (2)], 2014, glass, paper, wood, haptic immersion subwoofers and audio tracks](https://www.gallery.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ngc_crop_4x3_480/public/thumbnailmargolles.jpg?itok=M-Un_7Ri×tamp=1690558701)
