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Portrait of Lois Gordon in a Russian Dress, 1935, is a singular work in the career of Marian Dale Scott, a pioneering modernist and important figure in twentieth-century art in Canada.

Church in a Canyon, BC, 1929–30, is a small but powerful work by F.H. Varley (1881–1969) of the Group of Seven.

Church in a Canyon, BC, 1929–30, is a small but powerful work by F.H. Varley (1881–1969) of the Group of Seven.

This past fall and into spring, the exhibition Meryl McMaster: Bloodline continues its tour with a presentation at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton.

Stan Douglas’s photographs of Nootka Sound, on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, document many sites important in the history of both colonial and Indigenous people in the territory.

In celebration of Pegi Nicol MacLeod’s birthday on January 17, we’d like to highlight an excerpt from Georgiana Uhlyarik’s essay on the beloved artist, featured in the McMichael’s Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment.

One of the pleasures of exploring the Kinngait Drawings Archive is discovering works by artists who may not have the household name recognition they deserve. Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915–1982) is one such artist.

Mount Lefroy, c. 1929, by the Group of Seven’s Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970), is one of the five known graphite studies for his iconic painting Mt. Lefroy, 1930, a standout in the McMichael collection.

As part of our ongoing film series spotlighting contemporary Canadian artists, David Hartman followed Iris Häussler in her studio as she developed Divided Heavens, and later on the streets of downtown Toronto, where she volunteers with FLAP Canada.

Read an excerpt from artist Stan Douglas’ conversation with McMichael Executive Director, Sarah Milroy.

SHE in Mud Form, 2015–16, is a landmark cross-cultural collaboration between Nep Sidhu and Nicholas Galanin, forming part of their ongoing series No Pigs in Paradise.

On November 20, 2025, towering totem poles watched over a crowd of more than 700 guests gathered in the Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, to celebrate the opening of River of Dreams.

We’re delighted to share that the catalogue for our exhibition Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait won the Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries Award for Art Publication of the Year, 2025.

Kent Monkman (b. 1965) is a leading Cree visual artist from Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, Manitoba, and is currently based in Toronto. Compositional Study for “tâpwêwin (Truth),” 2025, is part of Monkman’s new Knowledge Keeper series, a body of work examining the history and enduring impact of Canada’s residential school system.

Toronto artist Iris Häussler is one of a number of Canadian artists who have made the Tom Thomson Shack on the McMichael property their temporary summer workspace, among them Robert Houle, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Jen Aitken, and Zachari Logan. Häussler’s complex project incorporated her research on the death of migrating birds though collisions with glass—a phenomenon that kills more than twenty million migrating birds in Canada annually.