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Originator: Fleming.

Artists with their work program. St. Catharines - Jan 7-28, 1989; Whitby - May 6-28, 1989; Sault Ste. Marie - Aug 17 - Sep 17, 1989; Peterborough - Aug 31 - Oct 8, 1989 together with Magdalen Celestino, Dyan Marie; Irene Xanthos and Shirley Yanover; Kingston - Nov 7-30, 1989; Stratford - Apr 13 - May 13, 1990; Whitby - Sep 12 - Oct 18, 1992 together with Rebecca Baird, Peter Dykhuis, Louise Noguchi, Reinhard Reitzenstein, An Whitlock; Owen Sound - Mr 5 - Apr 11, 1993;

Originator: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

The Prints and Drawings department was established in 1975 to collect and curate exhibitions of works on paper. Katharine A. Lochnan (nee Jordan) was the first curator of the Prints and Drawings department, having worked at the gallery as a curatorial assistant since 1969.

From 1912 to the 1960s, curatorial work at the AGO was not divided by area or department. The Curator (later Chief Curator) and Assistant Curators worked on exhibitions in all media, including prints and drawings.

The Prints and Drawings collection now includes more than 20,000 prints, drawings, and watercolours, housing works on paper from the 1400s to the present day. These works intersect with many of the AGO’s collecting areas, including European, Canadian, Inuit, Modern, Contemporary, and Photography, and are available for public reference in the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawings Study Centre.

The Prints and Drawings department regularly curates exhibitions at the AGO under the leadership of Alexa Greist, who has been the Curator & R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints and Drawings since 2016.

From 1912 to the 1960s, curatorial work at the AGO was not divided by area or department. The Curator (later Chief Curator, as of 1968) and Assistant Curators worked on exhibitions in all media, including prints and drawings. By 1976, the Curatorial branch expanded to include four additional curators, overseeing Contemporary, Canadian Historical, the Moore Centre, and Prints & Drawings, respectively.

The position of Curator of Canadian Art was created in 1970, when Joan Murray was appointed to the post. The department was renamed Canadian Historical in 1974, after J. Russell Harper became the first Curator of Canadian Historical Art. In 1978, Marie Fleming joined the department as the Acting Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art; the first curatorial role dedicated to contemporary Canadian works. The separation of contemporary and historical remained until 1992/1993, when Dennis Reid joined the AGO as Curator of Canadian Art. The AGO’s first curatorial role dedicated to Indigenous art came in 1989, when Norman Zepp became the Curator of Inuit Art. Zepp remained in this post until 1994, and the position was not refilled. Cynthia Cook, Assistant Curator of Inuit Art, remained until 1998. In 2017, the department was renamed the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous and Canadian Art. The department was co-led by Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art; and Wanda Nanibush, the first Curator, Indigenous Art; until 2023. The renaming occurred in conjunction with major exhibitions featuring works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Tim Pitsiulak, and Rebecca Belmore.

The Canadian and Indigenous collections now include significant acquisitions of works by individual artists, such as Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, Robert Houle, David Milne, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, and Shuvinai Ashoona. The collection spans over a wide range of mediums and artistic movements from historic to contemporary works; including Early Quebec art, pre-Confederation watercolours, Canadian modernism and abstraction, works on paper, and sculptural works; with a notable collection of Inuit sculptures.

The Indigenous and Canadian Art department regularly curates exhibitions at the AGO under the leadership of Georgiana Uhlyarik, who has been the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art since 2017.