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- Exhibition Openings
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Upcoming Exhibitions
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July 18 - July 23
- summer programming: Canadian Art Highlights Tours
Wednesday, July 7 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, July 14 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, July 21 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, July 28 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, August 4 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, August 11 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, August 18 from 2pm to 2:30pmWednesday, August 25 from 2pm to 2:30pm
Exhibitions
- The Nude in Modern Canadian Art, 1920-1950
Friday, June 18 to Sunday, August 22
- Works by more than 50 Canadian artists offer a powerful and complex viewing experience, proving that the nude’s place in Canadian art is just as important as wilderness landscape and abstract painting.
- We Are Sorry
Tuesday, June 15 to Sunday, August 22
- The powerful words of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Austrailian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as they apologized for their countries' treatment of their Aboriginal people throuigh the Indian Residential School system in Canada and the "Stolen Generation" in Australia.
- Diana Thorneycroft: Canada, Myth, and History, Group of Seven Awkward Moments Series
Saturday, June 12 to Sunday, August 22
- Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft takes historical Canadian landscapes by the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, and Emily Carr, and combines them with complex dioramas she has constructed using dolls, toys, and other found objects.
- Highlights of Inuit Sculpture
- Tuesday, May 4 to Sunday, January 30
- An exhibition featuring some of the outstanding Inuit sculptures in the WAG collection.
- Andrew Qappik: Pangnirtung Memories
Friday, April 30 to Sunday, August 1
- Andrew Qappik is another of the second- and third-generation Inuit artists who are expressing personal and contemporary concerns through their art.
- 20th Century Sculpture
- Saturday, April 3 to Sunday, January 30
- Works from the WAG's collection of 20th century sculpture provides ample illustration of artists pushing their practices in previously unimagined directions.
- Modernist Traditions: 1870-1950
- Wednesday, March 3 to Saturday, January 15
- The invention of photography had a lasting impact on how artists in the latter-half of the 19th century came to view the world as shown by these works from the WAG's collection.
- The Academic Tradition in Europe & Canada, 1700-1900
- Wednesday, March 3 to Sunday, January 30
- From Rome to Utrecht, European artists in the 17th and early 18th century created the emotionally charged work of the Baroque era. In reaction to the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church strove to entice believers back to the fold with gripping and beautiful vignettes of biblical drama
- European Renaissance and Baroque Art: 1500-1700
- Wednesday, March 3 to Sunday, January 30
- From the WAG's collection, art produced between the 16th and 18th centuries, originating from the leading artistic centres of Europe.This period is marked by important social and political changes, and art itself underwent a major transformation
- Art on a Paper Ground
- Wednesday, March 3 to Sunday, January 30
- The selection of works on paper from the WAG's collection displayed in this exhibition by 19th and 20th century European and Canadian artists reflects a wide range of use, as well as a diversity of styles and techniques
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Gallery Hours
Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 9pm
Closed Mondays
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