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Archival Records
The Archives of the National Gallery of Canada maintains the Gallery’s own archival records. These include records of the Board of Trustees, exhibition files, correspondence with artists, war art records, loan records, and building records. The Archives also acquires and maintains fonds of personal and corporate papers that relate to the National Gallery of Canada, its history, collections, exhibitions, personalities and facilities. Records can be located by using file title or file creator as search terms or by using keywords.
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Exhibition History
Descriptions of records related to National Gallery of Canada exhibitions, from 1880 to the present, are also included in the catalogue of the Library and Archives. They can be found by using the title of the exhibition as a search term or by using subject headings, including personal names.
Chronological lists of National Gallery of Canada exhibitions, 1880–2017, and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibitions, 1985–2002, have been compiled.
Other Archival Holdings
An online database of personal and corporate fonds in the National Gallery of Canada Archives can be accessed below. It was made possible through generous funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in New York.
These finding aids are also available through ArchiveGrid from OCLC.
Walter S. Allward Collection
ARLIS MOQ fonds
Art Metropole fonds, Art Metropole Collection
Caroline Armington fonds
Mowry Baden fonds
Francis Bacon fonds
Margaret Bailey fonds
Sandra Barz fonds
Fern Bayer fonds
Michael Bidner fonds
Ilse Bing fonds
Henry Birks and Sons fonds
Jeanne Borduas Brisebois fonds
Gutzon Borglum fonds
Jessica Bradley Gallery fonds
Laura Brandon fonds
Eric and Maud Brown fonds
Franklin Brownell fonds
David Buchan fonds, Art Metropole Collection
Donald W. Buchanan fonds
Frans Buffa & Zonen fonds
Jan Bulhak fonds
James Bulwer fonds
Virgil Burnett fonds
Canadian Art Libraries and Information Services Section (CARLIS) fonds
Antonio Canova fonds
Emily Carr fonds
Philip Clark Collection
M. Lillian Clarke fonds
Lynne Cohen fonds
Sorel Cohen fonds
Robert Collison fonds
Alex Colville Student Drawings
Ruth Comfort Jackson fonds
Continental Galleries of Fine Art fonds
Cooper & Beatty fonds
William Cruikshank fonds
Frances Gage fonds
Charles F. Gagnon fonds
Galerie Stern (see Max Stern fonds, Siegfried Thalheimer fonds, West's Galleries Limited fonds, Dominion Gallery fonds)
Christel Gang fonds
General Idea Collection, Art Metropole Collection
General Idea fonds
Eric Goldberg fonds
Ron Gould fonds
Thomas Garland Greene Collection
Vernon K. Gill fonds
Mayo Graham fonds
James Griffiths and John Griffiths Scrapbook
Allister Grosart fonds
Terry Guernsey fonds
Igloolik Isuma Productions fonds
Robert Boyer Inch fonds
Matthew Isenburg fonds
Yousuf Karsh Collection
Shelagh Keeley fonds
Harold F. Kells fonds
Kensington Fine Art Gallery fonds
Sheila Kincaid fonds
Albert Laberge fonds
G. Blair Laing fonds
Harry Lapow Photograph
Yves Larocque fonds
Ruby LeBoutillier fonds
Trudi Le Caine fonds
Jane Lind fonds
Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. fonds
John Lyman Letter
F. Maxwell Lyte fonds
Don Mabie fonds
Dr. James M. MacCallum Papers
Colin S. MacDonald fonds
Jock Macdonald fonds
Thoreau and J.E.H. MacDonald Collection
Anne E. Macintosh fonds
Frank Manners fonds
Markgraf Reproductions Collection
John Martin fonds
Norah McCullough Collection
McCurry Family Collection
Thomas Wesley McLean Collection
Ann Hillier McMenomin fonds
Lisette Model fonds
Henry Wentworth Monk fonds
Montreal Print Collectors Society fonds
Robert Murray fonds
National Gallery of Canada English Docents fonds
Diana Nemiroff fonds
Lilias Torrance Newton fonds
Wilbur Kells Peacock Papers
Carol Pearson fonds
Paul Peel and Isaure Verdier Peel fonds
Hamnett Pinhey fonds
Mary Pocock fonds
Philip J. Pocock fonds
Barbara Potter Collection
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Goodridge Roberts Drawings
Mariette Rousseau-Vermette fonds
John L. Russell Reg'd. and Beaver Hall Antiques Ltd. fonds
Sampson-Matthews Collection
Carl Schaefer fonds
Douglas Schoenherr fonds
W. Scott and Sons fonds
Rosalie Shapiro fonds
Sing Hoo Drawing
James D. Smillie Papers
Brydon Smith fonds
Lewis E. Smith Collection
Madge Smith fonds
Karl Spiess Family fonds
Gertrude Spurr-Cutts fonds
Robert Stacey fonds
William Redver Stark Collection
Chrysanne Stathacos fonds
Jana Sterbak fonds
Max Stern fonds
Beate Stock fonds
Takao Tanabe fonds
Josephine Hambleton Tessier fonds
Siegfried Thalheimer fonds
Bill Thomson fonds
David F. Thomson fonds
Jean Toche Correspondence, Art Metropole Collection
Gerald Trottier fonds
Watson Art Galleries fonds
Homer Watson fonds
John William Hurrell Watts fonds
Liliane and Cyril Welch fonds
Jean Werenfels fonds
West's Galleries Limited fonds
Robert Reginald Whale Family fonds
Joyce Wieland fonds
George Wilkes fonds
Mary F. Williamson fonds
Women Artists Oral History Project fonds
John William Woolsey and Family Collection
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