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

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.

Leslie Boyd

Kenojuak Ashevak was a matriarch of modern Inuit art. Raised on the land in an isolated Arctic community, she went on to break artistic gender barriers, set sales records, and lead her people through profound social change. Kenojuak created complex, rich images with intertwining, overlapping, and flowing forms. She was innovative, with an intuitive sense of composition and an instinct for depicting the interconnectedness of all living things. She lived a life of resilience through personal tragedy, and she created beauty and joy through her prolific art. Kenojuak Ashevak: Life and Legacy is the companion to the travelling exhibition of the same name, presenting dozens of Kenojuak’s prints side by side with their original drawings. In English, French, and Inuktitut, a foreword by Kenojuak’s daughter Silaqi Ashevak introduces readers to life with her famous mother, and an essay by curator Leslie Boyd provides a full, touching history of this pioneering artist of the Far North.

Trilingual
Hardcover | 112 pages
25.4 x 22.8 cm (10 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2019

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

Olafur Eliasson and Susan Grace Galassi

Claude Monet’s Vétheuil in Winter (1878–79), painted during the artist’s first winter in the village, depicts his new home on the Seine, seen from the opposite bank of the river. Monet’s two and a half years in Vétheuil, a small farming community northwest of Paris, saw two severe winters, the inspiration for this impressionist masterpiece, which is the subject of this ninth volume in the Frick Diptych series.

Susan Grace Galassi has written an insightful and engaging essay about Monet’s difficult but productive time in Vétheuil, which saw the death of his wife Camille. The Frick’s Monet painting, the only work by the artist in the collection, is the basis for other significant canvases made during his stay in the village in both winter and summer. Galassi’s essay is accompanied by a text and intriguing new work—Colour experiment no. 109—by the artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), created in response to the Monet painting.

Hardcover | 72 pages
18.5 x 24.1 cm (7.2 x 9.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2022

Gabby Dawnay and Dorien Brouwers

A Field Guide to Winter is a pocket-sized introduction to the winter season. Building on children’s natural curiosity about the world around them, this book aims to establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime.

Track paw prints through the snow, make your own woodland wind chimes, identify evergreen trees, and write a bedtime story for a sleepy bear. Discover how snowflakes form and why some animals hibernate in winter.

This book features lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children find different animals and plants. Whether a child’s access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.

Hardcover | 64 pages
15.7 x 22.6 cm (6.2 x 8.9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2025

Bernd Brunner

In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes.

This lovingly illustrated meditation on winter entwines the spectacular with the everyday, expertly capturing the essence of a beloved yet dangerous season, which is all the more precious in an era of climate change.

Hardcover | 280 pages
13.3 x 19 cm (5.25 x 7.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2019

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

This small poster features the artwork Snow II (1915) by Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970). 

Dimensions:
Image size: 24.5 x 23.2 cm (9.65 x 9.15 in.)
Paper size: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This small poster features the artwork Winter Brook (after 1908) by Gustaf Edolf Fjæstad (1868–1948). 

Dimensions:
Image size: 29.2 x 22.6 cm (11.5 x 8.9 in.)
Paper size: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This mug features the artwork Snow II (1915) by Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970). 

Holds 315 ml (11 fl. oz)
Microwave and dishwasher safe 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada 

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork The Ukrainian Pioneer, No. 5 (1971–1976) by William Kurelek (1927–1977). 

6.5 x 9 cm (2.5 x 3.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork Snowbound (1915) by J.E.H MacDonald (1873–1932). 

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork The Return of the Sun (1961) by Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013). 

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork Winter Bird (1984) by Pudlo Pudlat (1916–1992). 

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork Winter Brook (1908) by Gustaf Edolf Fjæstad (1868–1948). 

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork Snow II (1915) by Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970). 

6.5 x 9 cm (2.5 x 3.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork April in the Laurentians (1922–1924) by Anne Savage (1896–1971). 

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork Doc Snyder's House (1931) by L.L. Fitzgerald (1890–1956). 

6.5 x 9 cm (2.5 x 3.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold

This magnet features the artwork A Northern Night (1917) by Franz Johnston (1888–1949). 

6.5 x 9 cm (2.5 x 3.5 in.) 

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Related Exhibition: Winter Count: Embracing the Cold