Robin Laurence, Mary Reid & Josée Drouin-Brisebois

For over three decades, Wanda Koop has created an overwhelming body of work. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience, organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, this beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of paintings, as well as a number of video works.

Paper | 164 pages
Publication Date: 2011

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)

Katerina Atanassova, Wahsontiio Cross, Anabelle Kienle Ponka, Jocelyn Piirainen

Winter Count: Embracing the Cold draws inspiration from the Plains First Nations’ practices of recording significant events each winter, a visual reminder that helps structure histories and traditions passed down to future generations. This handsome volume explores how winter has long shaped Indigenous, Canadian settler and northern European art, uniting different cultural perspectives through diverse themes of storytelling, effects of light, physical adaptation and community and isolation.

Presenting a selection of works dating from the early 19th century to the present day, including those of artists such as Kenojuak Ashevak, J.E.H. MacDonald, Claude Monet, Kent Monkman, Meagan Musseau and Jin-me Yoon, Winter Count features approximately 165 plates, along with illustrated essays by curators from the National Gallery of Canada. The result is a book that invites readers to see winter anew – not as a season to be endured, but as a source of invention, connection and mutual respect across time and place. 

Bilingual
Hardcover | 304 pages 
Publication Date: 2025

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.