Tom Thomson made small oil sketches outside in the open air, painting directly from the Canadian landscape. 30 November 2014 : Special presentation...
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Past Exhibitions
June 12, 2014 to September 14, 2014
Draftsman, painter and sculptor, Gustave Doré is arguably the most renowned illustrator of all time. Visit the Minisite | Bluebeard in Black &...
May 26, 2014 to August 15, 2014
Les Fleurs du Mal , the most famous work of the poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), was published in 1857. Many of the themes of his poems are...
May 15, 2014 to August 17, 2014
Vera Frenkel’s …from the Transit Bar is a seminal work of Canadian contemporary art, comprising video, sculpture, architecture, readymade material...
March 14, 2014 to September 1, 2014
Library and Archives Canada In partnership with the National Gallery of Canada From the times of early exploration, the Arctic has excited the...
March 7, 2014 to May 25, 2014
Charles Edenshaw is the first major survey of work by the acclaimed 19th-century Haida artist. This comprehensive exhibition of 80 objects presents...
March 1, 2014 to June 8, 2014
Drawn from the NGC collections, this exhibition looks at the ways in which nature has been an enduring subject for artists over the centuries. A...
February 17, 2014 to September 7, 2014
Twenty-eight Meryl Streeps and twenty-three Jack Nicholsons appear intermittently across the fourteen monitors and two darkened rooms that comprise...
February 17, 2014 to August 25, 2014
The NGC presents The Way Things Go (1987). Drawing crowds wherever it has been exhibited, the highly acclaimed 30-minute recording of a spectacular...