The Indigenous Art Collection, cared for by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and located at 10 Wellington, Gatineau, Quebec, is one of the most important collection of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Comprising over 4,300 artworks by both prominent and emerging artists, it showcases First Nations, Inuit, and Métis expression of their histories, cultures, and realities, both past and present.

Created to celebrate the Art Centre’s 50th anniversary, this stunning volume and first major monograph published by the Government of Canada about the collection, highlights the richness and the importance of Indigenous cultures and heritage as an essential part of Canadian culture.

Featured artists: Barry Ace, Roger Aksadjuak, Allen "Ahmoo" Angeconeb, Tracey Anthony, George Arluk, Germaine Arnaktauyok, Arnaquq Ashevak, Kenojuak Ashevak, Kiawak Ashoona, Shuvinai Ashoona, Jason Baerg, Rebecca Baird, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Carl Beam, Shirley Bear, Jackson Beardy, Henry Beaudry, Lance Belanger, Christi Belcourt, Leland Bell, Michael Belmore, Rebecca Belmore, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Dempsey Bob, Vince Bomberry, Bob Boyer, Simon Brascoupé, Bruno Canadien, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Sarah Carr, Christian Chapman, Benjamin Chee Chee, Dorothy Chocolate, Lee Claremont, Hannah Claus, Dana Claxton, Eddy Cobiness, Ruth Cuthand, Colleen Cutschall, Joseph T. David, Joe David, Reg Davidson, Robert Davidson, Patricia Deadman, Blake Debassige, Beau Dick, Gertrude Dick & Simon Dick, Freda Diesing, Wally Dion, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Sheojuk Etidlooie, Thomasie Etuangat, Jerry A. Evans, Rosalie Favell, David Garneau, David General, Richard Glazer-Danay, David Hannan, Tanya Harnett, Walter Harris, Faye HeavyShield, Chuck "Ya’Ya" Heit, Tom Hill, Richard W. Hill Sr., Robert Houle, Calvin Hunt, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Maria Hupfield, Sarah Inukpuk, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Naomi Ityi, Mattiusi Iyaituk, Joseph "Joe" Jacobs, Alex Janvier, Philip Janzé, Alfred Joseph, Francis Kagige, Joshim Kakegamic, Roy Kakegamic, Towkie Karpik, Elsie Anaginak Klengenberg, Katia Kak'wa Kurtness, Rita Letendre, Eva Linklater, George Littlechild, Martin "Akwiranoron" Loft, Jim Logan, Kayley Mackay, Joelee Maniapik, Qavavau Manumie, Clifford Maracle, Teresa Marshall, Glenna Matoush, Walter McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald McMaster, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Kent Monkman, Shirley Moorhouse, Christian Morrisseau, Norval Morrisseau, Ken Mowatt, Earl Muldon & Ron Sebastian, Nadia Myre, David Neel, Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Jeneen Frei Njootli, William Noah, Ron Noganosh, Daphne Odjig, Tim Paul, Lionel Peyachew, David Ruben Piqtoukun, Tim Pitsiulak, Susan Point, Edward Poitras, Jane Ash Poitras, Annie Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Barry Pottle, John Powell, Pudlo Pudlat, Carl Ray, Bill Reid, Arthur Renwick, Ryan Rice, Garmel Rich, Rick Rivet, Eric A. Robertson, Kakulu Saggiaktuk, Pitaloosie Saila, Nicotye Samayualie, Allen Sapp, Frank Shebageget, Arthur Shilling, Roger Simon, Pierre Sioui, Skawennati, Ann Smith, Henry Speck, Greg Staats, Alan J. Syliboy, Gerald Tailfeathers, Winnie Tatya, Ningeokuluk Teevee, Jeffrey M. Thomas, Roy Thomas, Art Thompson, Simon Tookoome, Oviloo Tunnillie, Helen Wassegijig, Elisapee Weetaluktuk, Hjalmer Wenstob, Tania Willard, Linus Woods, Lauren I. Wuttunee, Donald Yeomans, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

Hardcover | 383 Pages
23.5 x 21.5 x 3.7 cm (9.3 x 8.5 x 1.5 in.)

Joan Murray 

A treasury of Tom Thomson's (1877–1917) most influential paintings as chosen by his friends and collectors, illustrating a moving, untold story in Canadian art.

Paperback | 152 pages
21.5 x 21 x 1 cm (8.5 x 8.3 x 0.4 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

David Silcox

A forerunner of the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson's compelling works ignited a powerful national art movement that shaped the way Canadians viewed their land. This illustrated introduction to his work covers: Thomson's childhood and early years; his career as a commercial artist; the influence of Lawren Harris and J.E.H.MacDonald; his fame as an artist; his discovery of Algonquin Park; and the mystery surrounding his death.

Paperback | 64 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2002

Joan Murray

Lawren Harris, one of the greatest painters of Canadian art, was a leader in the creation of the Group of Seven.  This illustrated introduction to Harris's work traces his artistic development through the study of his paintings, drawing a lively picture of this energetic and charismatic individual who contributed so much to Canadian art.

Paperback | 64 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2003

Anne Newlands

For decades, the paintings of the Group of Seven have been instantly familiar to Canadians. But in the early part of the 20th century, these artists were engaged in a struggle for acceptance, mocked by critics and the public alike. In The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson author Anne Newlands explores the ambitions and visions of this unique cast of characters, capturing the cultural and historical realities of their time and bringing to life their artistic response to the Canadian wilderness.

Paperback | 66 pages 
23.5 x 23.5 cm (9.25 x 9.25 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

David P. Silcox 

At a critical time in Canada's history, the Group of Seven revolutionized the country's appreciation of itself by celebrating Canada as a wild and beautiful land. These paintings of the wilderness evoke the same response in viewers today as they did when first exhibited. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson includes many never-before reproduced paintings and presents the most complete and extensive collection of these artists' works ever published. The 400 paintings and drawings reveal the remarkable genius of all 10 painters who at some point were part of the movement. 

Paperback | 444 pages 
22.2 x 26 x 3.8 cm (8.75 x 10.24 x 1.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2011

Ian M. Thom

Nearly seventy years after her death, Emily Carr's works continue to capture the grandeur of British Columbia's landscape and define our vision of the nation. This small-format book showcases the breadth of Carr's career, and includes more than one hundred of the artist’s best and most memorable works.

Paperback | 152 pages
18 x 20.5 cm (7 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2013

David P. Silcox 

David Milne (1882–1953) experienced life as an artist in turn-of-the-century New York, as a soldier in World War I, and as a contemporary of the Group of Seven in Canada. This book traces the gifted painter's development over the course of tumultuous personal and historical events.  

Paperback | 64 pages 
22.8 x 22.8 cm (9 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005

Leslie Boyd

The first monograph on Cape Dorset artist Tim Pitsiulak (1967–2016), this richly illustrated book presents more than seventy reproductions and photographs, and includes personal annotations by the artist, along with an essay by Leslie Boyd, former director of Dorset Fine Arts, Toronto. 

Hardcover | 84 pages
23.6 x 1.5 x 20.8 cm (9.3 x 0.6 x 8.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2018

Ian M. Thom

Remarkable paintings grace the pages of Maria Chapdelaine, a novel written by a Frenchman yet embraced by generations of Canadian readers. Renowned Canadian artist Clarence Gagnon used a meticulous process to create 54 small paintings for Louis Hémon’s early 20th-century story set in the Quebec countryside. Gagnon’s vivid illustrations depict the strength of body and soul necessary to survive such a harsh environment. All of the Gagnon Maria Chapdelaine illustrations are reproduced in this book, with excerpts from the novel. The complete set of paintings resides in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, where it is considered a rare treasure. Art historian and curator Ian M. Thom in his essay provides insight into Gagnon’s life and an appreciation of his art.

Hardcover | 120 pages
22.5 x 20.3 cm (9 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2020

François-Marc Gagnon

The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting impact on his work.

Hardcover | 224 pages
21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2020

François-Marc Gagnon

The artist Jean Paul Riopelle is best known for his renowned mature abstract style. In this fascinating history, François-Marc Gagnon begins with the artist's first paintings and his early commitment to objectivity to explore Riopelle's involvement with the Automatiste movement and its lasting impact on his work.

Hardcover | 224 pages
21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2020

Monique Brunet-Weinmann 

Great unpublished interviews, personal memories, biographical recollections, and analysis of Riopelle's work: Monique Brunet-Weinmann leads us to understand the intellectual and emotional links that unite the work to the being. It reveals an honest portrait of Riopelle, told through the mythical figures of his work. 

Paperback | 344 pages 
15 x 23 cm (5.9 x 9 in.) 
Only available in French

Sarah Fillmore, Ray Cronin, Mireille Eagan, Catharine Mastin, Sarah Milroy, Caroline Stone

Luminescent canvases form the visual focus of Mary Pratt, a major volume that features more than seventy-five of the artist's most renowned paintings. The work of Mary Pratt (1935–2018) elevates the mundane to the monumental, creating silent moments infused with significance. 

Paperback | 160 pages 
22.8 x 25.4 cm (9 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning artist and filmmaker working across film, video, photography, single and multichannel video installation and performance art. Her practice investigates the body, the socio-political and the spiritual within realms of indigenous beauty.

This book consolidates our understanding of Dana Claxton’s dominant and recurring themes―indigenous history, culture, beauty and spirituality. While Claxton’s art often alludes to the destructive legacy of colonialism, it also celebrates the resurgence of First Nations’ presence and contemporary identity. What emerges is an artist delivering works of ever greater power and conviction. With her expansive and genre-defying practice―photography, videos, mixed-media installations, text works, performances and curatorial work―she continues to critically reimagine the space of the gallery to be accessible for wider Indigenous audiences and to uphold new understandings of beauty.

Hardcover | 214 pages
24.6 x 30.5 cm (9.7 x 12 in.) 
Publication Date: 2021

Scotiabank Photography Award

Covering over 30 years of artistic practice, this book celebrates the complex yet highly distilled photographs of Jin-me Yoon’s dynamic vision. Showcasing a camera that is a witness to performative acts occurring both inside and outside the frame, the book reveals how Yoon has expanded conceptualist understandings of image-making and contributed to ongoing discussions of place and identity. In doing so, this volume illustrates how she uses the inherent mobility of images and the forces of diasporic thinking to bring disparate worlds together in poetic relation and create conditions for a different future.

Hardcover | 228 pages
24.8 x 30.5 cm (9.76 x 12 in.)

Ming Tiampo

In Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work, Ming Tiampo reveals how Yoon’s multidisciplinary art—which includes photography, video, performances, and installations—reconnects troubled pasts with damaged presents and offers hope for a better future. It considers how one of Canada’s most important voices on the nature of identity developed a critical perspective on the representation of this country in museums, art history, the tourist industry, and monuments with groundbreaking works such as Souvenirs of the Self, 1991, and Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996, projects that, as Tiampo notes, have become “canonical touchstones in the public articulation of Canadian identity and race.”

Hardcover | 128 pages
20x28 cm (8x11 in.)

Joan Borsa 

Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and is of Plains Cree and Scottish ancestry. For nearly 30 years her works “talk back” to mainstream media and colonial society, addressing the frictions between cultures, the failures of representation, and the political uses of anger in Canada. Her subjects include “white liberal” attitudes towards Aboriginal women, the Canadian response to the 1990 Oka crisis, Mormon-Native relations in Cardston, Alberta (the artist's childhood home), and more. This comprehensive overview features a selection of artworks produced between 1983 and 2009, including the complete suite of twelve award-winning beadworks, the Trading series, which depict the diseases that ravished First Nations upon European contact. As an artist, teacher, and cultural activist, Cuthand has been extremely influential on contemporary Aboriginal artists across Canada.

Paperback | 144 pages
21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 10.9 in.)
Publication Date: 2012 
English and Cree

Anka Muhlstein

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the art world of his time: a founding member of the new French school of painting, Impressionism, he attracted Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Berthe Morisot, and later Cézanne and Gauguin. Supported throughout his career, despite the hostility of the public, by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, he had a persistent feeling of being apart, different, and difficult to classify. Settling in France at the age of twenty-five but born in the Danish West Indies, he was not French and, moreover, he was Jewish. He never hid this fact and knew that it was not insignificant in French society, which was shaken at the end of the 19th century by the defeat of 1870, workers' struggles, and the Dreyfus affair. His two passions were painting and the artistic education of his children. Thanks to his astonishing energy and availability, he never sacrificed one for the other, and his five sons became painters themselves. Drawing on Pissarro's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that reveal his warm nature and great freedom of thought, Anka Muhlstein paints a nuanced and intimate portrait of an artist with an independent and singular spirit.

Paperback | 272 pages
22.7 x 14.3 cm (8.9 x 5.6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2024

Only available in French.

Harry Malcolmson

The 1960s transformed art in Canada. The Scene traces the remarkable reshaping of the Canadian art landscape during that era. Written by renowned art critic Harry Malcolmson, the book offers a captivating insider’s perspective on how a surge of artists, galleries, collectors, and critics propelled Canadian art into the global spotlight.

Malcolmson identifies the catalysts that ignited this artistic renaissance, including an outpouring of pride in the country linked to Canada's Centennial, Expos ’67, and the Toronto City Hall. With rich anecdotes and insights, the book paints a comprehensive portrait of the era, while showcasing over twenty portraits of influential Canadian artists. Richly illustrated, the book illuminates the totality of the Scene’s evolution and delves into the impact of Canadian nationalism and economic prosperity on the Scene. It examines the rise of contemporary institutions, such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, capturing the emergence of a modern Canadian identity. Ultimately, The Scene stands as a unique testament to a pivotal moment in cultural history, capturing the essence of the most impactful decade in the history of art in Canada.

Hardcover | 288 pages
20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) 
Publication Date: 2025