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. 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

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

Pratapaditya Pal 

Images divines, perceptions humaines : la collection Max Tanenbaum d'art d'Asie du Sud et de l'Himalaya au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada 

While the Gallery acquired representative examples of historic Asian art beginning in the early 20th century, its holdings were transformed thanks to the generous gift of Max Tanenbaum (1909–1983), who donated part of the collection of the late Nasli Heeramaneck (1902–1971) in 1980. 

This book commemorates one of the most sumptuous gifts in the history of the National Gallery of Canada. Dr. Hsio-Yen Shih (1933–2001), the sixth director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1977–1981, attracted this remarkable donation in an attempt to expand the collection beyond the confines of the arts of Canada, Europe and North America. 

Softcover | 166 pages 
20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 1997 
Printed in Canada
Available in French only

David Harris

Over the last fifty years, Gabor Szilasi, a Montreal artist born in Hungary, has created one of the most important photographic bodies of work in Canada, work that combines portraits, domestic and commercial interiors, cityscapes of Montreal and Budapest, and images from many regions of rural Quebec. This comprehensive publication contains a study of the artist, a catalogue of the works in the exhibition, and an exhaustive biography that explores the different private and professional facets of Szilasi's life.

Paper | 240 pages
23 x 29 cm (9 x 11.4 in.)
Publication Date: 2010
Available in French only

James Borcoman 

Photographies françaises du XIXe siècle is the second in a series of exhibitions highlighting the strengths of the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection of photographs. The intention of the exhibition is also to provide an introduction to the history of the medium's early years; the beautifully illustrated catalogue highlights works by such photographers as Charles Marville, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Atget, Édouard Baldus, Étienne Carjat, Henri Le Secq, and Nadar. 

Paper | 168 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2010

James Borcoman 

19th-Century French Photographs is the second in a series of exhibitions highlighting the strengths of the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection of photographs. The intention of the exhibition is also to provide an introduction to the history of the medium's early years; the beautifully illustrated catalogue highlights works by such photographers as Charles Marville, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Atget, Édouard Baldus, Étienne Carjat, Henri Le Secq, and Nadar. 

Paper | 168 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2010

Lori Pauli, John McElhone 

Photographies britanniques du XIXe siècle is the third installment in a series of catalogues that showcase the depth and variety of photographs from the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection. This catalogue documents the developments in photographic technologies in 19th century Britain; from historically important paper negatives to platinum prints, works by Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot, Frederick Evans, Roger Fenton, and Henry Peach Robinson, among others, are beautifully illustrated and examined. 

Paper | 180 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2011

Lori Pauli, John McElhone 

19th-Century British Photographs is the third installment in a series of catalogues that showcase the depth and variety of photographs from the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection. This catalogue documents the developments in photographic technologies in 19th century Britain; from historically important paper negatives to platinum prints, works by Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot, Frederick Evans, Roger Fenton, and Henry Peach Robinson, among others, are beautifully illustrated and examined. 

Paper | 180 pages 
20.5 x 26.5 cm (8 x 10½ in.) 
Publication Date: 2011

Karen Duffek 

This catalogue features thirty paintings and sculptures by Robert Davidson, a leading contemporary Haida artist who works to expand and transform his understanding of Haida art and cultural practice through engagement with abstraction, reclaiming cultural knowledge, and developing a personal iconography in his art. 

Paper | 64 pages 
20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 2004
Available in French only

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

David Franklin 

The sixteenth century in Rome was a rich period in art history. Such celebrated masters as Raphael, Michelangelo, Salviati and Vasari practiced in the city during this time. De Raphaël à Carracci. L'art de la Rome pontificale is unprecedented in its comprehensive examination of Renaissance Rome. The catalogue contains contributions from more than forty scholars from Canada and abroad, and highlights considerable new research and a number of discoveries published here for the first time. 

Hardcover | 482 pages 
32 x 26 cm (12.6 x 10.25 in.)
Publication Date: 2009 
Available in French only

Xavier Salomon, Jennifer Fletcher, Stephen Gritt 

The Petrobelli Altarpiece was painted by Paolo Veronese around 1563 for the Petrobelli family burial chapel near Venice; in 1788, the large painting was ruthlessly cut down and sold in pieces. Paolo Véronèse. Le Retable Petrobelli reunites the four parts of Veronese's glorious altarpiece, which have not been seen together since the painting's brutal division. The reunion and reconstruction of the altarpiece is a unique occasion to re-evaluate this Venetian Renaissance masterpiece. 

Paper | 160 pages 
17 x 24 cm (6.7 x 9.45 in.) 
Publication date: 2009

Xavier Salomon, Jennifer Fletcher, Stephen Gritt 

The Petrobelli Altarpiece was painted by Paolo Veronese around 1563 for the Petrobelli family burial chapel near Venice; in 1788, the large painting was ruthlessly cut down and sold in pieces. Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece reunites the four parts of Veronese's glorious altarpiece, which have not been seen together since the painting's brutal division. The reunion and reconstruction of the altarpiece is a unique occasion to re-evaluate this Venetian Renaissance masterpiece. 

Paper | 160 pages 
17 x 24 cm (6.7 x 9.45 in.) 
Publication date: 2009

Pierre Théberge, Jean Clair 

On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Beyond similar governmental mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man." This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945. 

Softcover | 396 pages 
23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.) 
Publication date: 2008

Pierre Théberge, Jean Clair 

On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Beyond similar governmental mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man." This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945. 

Softcover | 396 pages 
23 x 30 cm (9 x 12 in.) 
Publication date: 2008

Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen

This book invites the reader to discover the major periods, main styles, and significant masterpieces of art and to enrich their gaze through the texts, commentaries, and images that fill each page. 

Softcover | 564 pages 
27 x 21 cm (10.7 x 8.27 in.) 
Publication date: 2021
Only available in French

Anne Koval 

Art historian Anne Koval wrote Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision in close consultation with Pratt. The book is informed by extensive interviews with the artist, and her family, friends, and colleagues and by unprecedented access to Pratt's archival holdings at Mount Allison University. This in-depth study of Pratt's life and work explores the complex issues of gender, feminism, and realism in Canadian art, resulting in a richly layered biography of an artist who redefined the visual culture of her period and whose art and life intersect in varied and surprising ways. 

Hardcover | 316 pages 
Publication date: 2023

Kent Monkman, Richard William Hill, Lucy R. Lippard, John Ralston Saul & Barbara K. Fischer 

Through the eyes of his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Cree artist Kent Monkman takes us back to 150 years of Canada's existence in nine thematic chapters, marked by the implementation of devastating genocidal policies. Monkman uses the expressive power of historical painting to make us aware of the tragedies experienced in the past by Indigenous peoples. 

Hardcover | 271 pages 
29 x 23 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2020

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

Sarah Hull

What is art? Why do we talk about narrative art? Where do artists draw their inspiration from? Throughout this fascinating book, young readers will discover surprising concepts, a profusion of colours and works by famous artists. Published in collaboration with the National Gallery of London.

Hardcover | 96 pages
26 x 20.5 cm (10.24 x 8.07 in.)
Only available in French