Ann Thomas

This original publication, which focuses on the early decades of the 20th century, is the first in a new series devoted to the study of photographic masterpieces from the National Gallery of Canada's international collection. Examining the expansive, innovative and often contradictory modernist ethos that shaped the creation and use of photographic art from 1900 to 1940, this generously illustrated publication highlights dozens of works from Germany, England, Czech Republic, United States, France, Russia, Hungary, Japan and Canada. An introductory essay describes the development of photography artistically, technically and socially. Following the essay, 79 individual works are presented within the context of their times. Each is illustrated with a full-page duo tone plate. Among the artists are some of the world's greatest photographic innovators, notably Eugène Atget, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, Alexander Rodchenko and Edward Weston.

Paper | 200 pages
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2007

Matha Hannah with Marnie Fleming & Olivier Asselin 

The work of Angela Grauerholz occupies an important place in Canadian and international photography. From the 1980s on, her search to redefine the art of photography has taken various forms including portraits and interior and exterior scenes with or without people. This retrospective publication covers twenty years of production and highlights Grauerholz's major photographic and installation works. Three critical essays discuss the work in relation to time, memory and representation. 

Hardcover | 240 pages 
18 x 24.5 cm (7.1 x 9.65 in.) 
Publication Date: 2007

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

De-con-structions focuses on works by Michel de Broin, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Karilee Fuglem, Tricia Middleton and Annie Thibault, five Quebec artists whose interventions question the museum as idea and context. The installations created by these artists prompt the museum to confront and question its role of collecting, preserving, and displaying art; in their hands, the gallery space itself is transformed from a repository for art into an artist's studio and laboratory. 

Paperback | 32 pages
23 x 20 cm (9 x 7.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2007

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Dé-con-structions focuses on works by Michel de Broin, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Karilee Fuglem, Tricia Middleton and Annie Thibault, five Quebec artists whose interventions question the museum as idea and context. The installations created by these artists prompt the museum to confront and question its role of collecting, preserving, and displaying art; in their hands, the gallery space itself is transformed from a repository for art into an artist's studio and laboratory. 

Paperback | 32 pages
23 x 20 cm (9 x 7.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2007

Douglas E. Schoenherr

Great drawings and superb watercolours by seventy major artists from the 18th to the 20th centuries are presented here and demonstrate the strength of the British drawings collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The catalogue, which includes works by such artists as J.W.M.Turner, Samuel Palmer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, is the fourth in a series presenting important drawings from the Gallery's permanent collection.

Paper | 196 pages 
20.35 x 26.68 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005

Douglas E. Schoenherr

Great drawings and superb watercolours by seventy major artists from the 18th to the 20th centuries are presented here and demonstrate the strength of the British drawings collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The catalogue, which includes works by such artists as J.W.M.Turner, Samuel Palmer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, is the fourth in a series presenting important drawings from the Gallery's permanent collection.

Paper | 196 pages 
20.35 x 26.68 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005

Peter Trepanier, Garry Neill Kennedy 

Known primarily as a painter, Garry Neill Kennedy has remained committed to a conceptual art practice in which he critiques painting, its processes, materials, and presentation, and reveals underlying assumptions about its making or its representation. Kennedy's printed matter serves as a valuable index to his artistic practice. This catalogue contains an inventory of more than one hundred items, and illustrates, identifies, and describes printed matter designed by or in collaboration with the artist from 1971 to 2009. 

Hardcover | 213 pages 
20 x 26 cm (7.8 x 10.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea (the ground-breaking collective practice of AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal). Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, The Top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea (the ground-breaking collective practice of AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal). Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, Le top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006

Denise Leclerc 

Les années soixante au Canada follows the trends in Canadian artistic production during that decade which tested the conventional boundaries of artistic disciplines; photographic works also testify to the experimentation and eclectisicm that characterize Canadian photography. Nearly 180 featured works by Canadian artists pinpoint the diversity of artistic expression throughout this remarkably prolific period. 

Paper | 188 pages
23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005 
Only available in French.

Under the direction of John R. Porter & Pierre Théberge, in collaboration with Anne Sophie Lemieux & Madeleine Lacerte 

Beyond the immediate charm of some of his subjects lies Lemieux's eloquent vision of our vast space, our northern sensibility and our collective soul — a soul torn between the nostalgia for the past and an unknowable future. He was able to vividly capture in his work the solitude of individual human existence, thus giving it a universal dimension. To mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, this catalogue has been designed to give as much space as possible to a visual panorama of the artist's work. We hope that all those who peruse this catalogue will be touched by the universality of the work of Jean Paul Lemieux. 

Homage to Jean Paul Lemieux is published by the National Gallery of Canada in association with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Galerie Lacerte. 

Hardcover | 119 pages 
21 x 27 cm (8.27 x 10.63 in.) 
Publication date: 2004

Sonia Couturier

Executed between the 17th and 19th centuries by artists such as Jacques Bellange, Charles de La Fosse, François Boucher, Jacques Louis David and Edgar Degas, the seventy works featured in this volume highlight the richness of the French drawings in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Paper | 188 pages 
20.35 x 26.68 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2004
Available in French only

David Franklin

Seventy of the finest Italian drawings from the 16th to the 18th centuries in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada are featured in this volume. Brilliant examples by such artists as Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Annibale Carracci and Piranesi were selected and described. This is the first in a series of catalogues presenting selected treasures from the Gallery's permanent collection.

Paper | 176 pages
Publication Date: 2003

David Franklin

Seventy of the finest Italian drawings from the 16th to the 18th centuries in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada are featured in this volume. Brilliant examples by such artists as Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Annibale Carracci and Piranesi were selected and described. This is the first in a series of catalogues presenting selected treasures from the Gallery's permanent collection.

Paper | 176 pages 
20.35 x 26.68 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2003

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most celebrated painters; this catalogue accompanies a major exhibition representing his achievements over the last four decades. Some sixty canvases are featured, along with several study drawings. Pratt's work reveals his lifelong search for order and simplicity, using art to distil the essence of his environment through his personal response to his surroundings.

Hardcover | 132 pages
31 x 29 cm (12.2 x 11.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2003

Joaneath Spicer

Second in an ongoing series focussing on selected masterpieces from the permanent collection of prints and drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, this catalogue features nearly fifty of the oldest and most emotionally evocative sheets by Dutch and Flemish masters, from Gerard David to Rembrandt and Rubens.

Paper | 188 pages 
20.35 x 26.68 cm (8 x 10.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2003
Only available in French 

David Franklin

Among Renaissance artists, Parmigianino was perhaps more conscious than any of the potential of the graphic arts to convey, and indeed broadcast, complex ideas. He explored this potential himself, not only by means of his numerous drawings but also through the etchings he produced on his own (effectively introducing this print medium into Italian art) and through the engravings and chiaroscuro woodcuts that were made after his designs.

Paper | 289 pages 
22 x 27 cm (8.7 x 10.6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2001

Available in French only

Douglas E. Schoenherr

The David Lemon Collection represents a comprehensive selection of British prints, comprising over 200 works from 1820 to 1955. Lignes exploratoires illustrates 89 original and reproductive etchings by remarkable British artists such as William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Laura Knight and Graham Sutherland. 

Paper | 180 pages 
23 x 30.5 cm (9 x 12 in.) 
Publication Date: 1997

Douglas E.Schoenherr

The David Lemon Collection represents a comprehensive selection of British prints, comprising over 200 works from 1820 to 1955. Lines of Enquiry illustrates 89 original and reproductive etchings by remarkable British artists such as William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Laura Knight and Graham Sutherland.

Paper | 180 pages 
23 x 30.5 cm (9 x 12 in.)
Publication Date: 1997

Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski's insightful and provocative text is accompanied by a fascinating array of paintings, drawings and photographs illustrating the history of museum architecture and showcasing Safdie's innovations in his design for the Gallery.

Paper | 108 pages 
20.5 x 30.5 cm (8 x 12 in.) 
Publication Date: 1993