This stylish bowl with a cool textured exterior and a contemporary indigenous design on the interior, features an eagle design by Namgis artist Ryan Cranmer.

10.8 x 5 cm (4.25 x 2 in.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

This stylish cup with a cool textured exterior and a contemporary indigenous design on the interior, features an eagle motif by Namgis artist Ryan Cranmer.

Holds 355 ml (12 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

Brighten your kitchen with this luxurious tea towel, featuring an eagle design by Namgis artist Ryan Cranmer.

70 x 50 cm (27.5 x 19.7 in.)
Cotton Jacquard
Machine washable

Sarah Milroy

Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment offers commentary on a generation of extraordinary women painters, photographers, sculptors, architects and filmmakers from a century ago — pioneers who opened new frontiers for women artists in Canada — as well as works made by their Indigenous female contemporaries working in traditional media, for a cross-country snapshot of female creativity in this dynamic modern moment.

Hardcover | 320 pages
Publication Date: 2021

This warm and soft reversible blanket features a design by Anishinaabe artist Tehatsistahawi (Tsista) Kennedy.

ABOUT THE DESIGN: In the centre of the blanket stands the Dust Fan Wampum Belt, also known as the Everlasting Tree Belt. This belt predates colonization, and represents an integral element of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Tree of Peace. The Skydomes represent the Skyworld in our Creation Story, and from where life came. Finally, the outermost rows of this blanket display iconographic representations of people standing hand-in-hand.

152.4 x 203.2 cm (60 x 80 in.)
20% recycled wool, 30% acrylic, 50% recycled polyester
Wash on cold, hang to dry
Designed, cut & sewn in Canada

Cornelia Homburg, Anabelle Kienle
Joseph J. Rishel, Jennifer A. Thompson

Vincent van Gogh’s profound love of nature has often been taken for granted but has rarely been studied in detail. While he has long been admired for his dazzling use of intense colour and expressive brushwork, it is his innovative representation of nature that makes him a truly modern artist and is the focus of Van Gogh: Up Close. This exhibition, which has been organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, concentrates on Van Gogh’s French period, from 1886 to 1890, and highlights how he conveyed his intense response to the natural world – whether this was a landscape, a still life, or the rendering of a single blade of grass – through a number of different, and often radical compositional strategies.

Softcover | 290 pages
Publication Date: 2012

Cornelia Homburg, Anabelle Kienle
Joseph J. Rishel, Jennifer A. Thompson

Vincent van Gogh’s profound love of nature has often been taken for granted but has rarely been studied in detail. While he has long been admired for his dazzling use of intense colour and expressive brushwork, it is his innovative representation of nature that makes him a truly modern artist and is the focus of Van Gogh: Up Close. This exhibition, which has been organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, concentrates on Van Gogh’s French period, from 1886 to 1890, and highlights how he conveyed his intense response to the natural world – whether this was a landscape, a still life, or the rendering of a single blade of grass – through a number of different, and often radical compositional strategies.

Softcover | 290 pages
Publication Date: 2012

Brian Jungen (b. 1970)
Vienna, 2003

Jungen is renowned for repurposing objects from contemporary culture to reflect Indigenous concerns. Meant to resemble the skeleton of a whale, an endangered animal considered by many Indigenous peoples to be of great spiritual power, Vienna is constructed out of inexpensive patio chairs made of plastic, an indestructible material.

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.)

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Brian Jungen (b. 1970)
Vienna, 2003

Jungen is renowned for repurposing objects from contemporary culture to reflect Indigenous concerns. Meant to resemble the skeleton of a whale, an endangered animal considered by many Indigenous peoples to be of great spiritual power, Vienna is constructed out of inexpensive patio chairs made of plastic, an indestructible material.

Card dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 cm (6.8 x 5.3 in.)
Blank inside. Envelope included.

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942)
Village in the Laurentian Mountains, 1925

Gagnon is best known for his rural Quebec landscape paintings. Although he trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career, he never lost his love of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec, which inspired many of his paintings.

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.)

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

These socks reproduce a detail from the painting Water Lilies II by Claude Monet (1840–1926).

Composition: 80% cotton, 18% polyamide, 2% elastane
Country of origin: Turkey

This fine bone china mug depicts a detail from one of the water lilies paintings by Claude Monet (1840–1926).

Holds 580 ml (19.6 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

This switch plate features a detail from Claude Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge: Effect of Sunlight in the Fog (1903) in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Made for single gang toggle switch
11.43 x 6.98 cm (4.5 x 2.75 in)

This fine bone china mug depicts a detail from the painting White Pine (c. 1957) by A.J. Casson (1898–1992).

Holds 580 ml (19.6 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

This fine bone china teacup depicts a detail from the painting Woman with a Parasol (1875) by Claude Monet (1840–1926). The set includes a teacup, an infuser and a lid.

Holds 414 ml (14 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

Diana Nemiroff

From obstacles of bureaucracy to veiled challenges to women in powerful positions, Women at the Helm paints a rich picture of what it takes to lead a major art institution. In her latest book, author and art historian Diana Nemiroff explores a transformative thirty-year period in the history of the National Gallery of Canada through the careers of its first three women directors (Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson), detailing each of their unique triumphs and tribulations.

Paperback | 552 pages
85 photos, colour insert
19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in)

This set of 4 coasters features a detail from the painting Woodland Floral (1991) by Anishnaabe (Ojibwa) artist Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007).

9.5 x 9.5 cm (3 ¾ x 3 ¾ in)
Cork

This stylish silk tie features a design by Anishnaabe (Ojibwa) artist Norval Morrisseau.

Width: 8 cm (3.15 in.)
Packaged in a gift box

Lynne Cooke

This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past hundred years.

In the 20th century, textiles were often considered lesser – as applied art, women’s work, or domestic craft. Woven Histories challenges the hierarchies that have separated textiles from fine arts. Putting into dialogue some 130 works by more than 45 creators from across generations and continents, the exhibition explores the contributions weaving and related techniques have made to abstraction, modernism’s pre-eminent art form.

See a variety of textile techniques including weaving, knitting, netting, knotting and felting. Learn about the wide-ranging reasons artists from Anni Albers to Rosemarie Trockel and Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee Nation) have engaged with this art form. Some seek to effect social change; others address political issues. Engaging with textiles as subject, material and technique, still others revitalize abstraction’s formal conventions or critique its patriarchal history and gendered identity.

Follow this hidden thread of art history to discover the work of creators who were once marginalized for their gender, race or class.

Hardcover
24 x 28 cm (9.5 x 11 in.)
Publication date: 2024

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.