June 14 – October 13, 2025
Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault
Rarely Seen Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada—Degas, Klimt, Munch & More at the Audain Art Museum!
The Audain Art Museum proudly presents a landmark exhibition featuring rarely seen drawings from the National Gallery of Canada’s renowned Prints and Drawings collection. Established in 1921 as the first of its kind in Canada, this collection spans the 15th to 20th centuries, showcasing works in graphite, ink, pastel, watercolour, and more.
Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault is organized by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). This exceptional exhibition highlights masterpieces by Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and many other celebrated artists, alongside newly acquired and never-before-displayed works. The selection ranges from preparatory sketches for iconic paintings to striking depictions of history, mythology, portraiture, landscapes, abstraction, and intimate explorations of the human experience.
Accompanying the exhibition is Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault, a richly illustrated catalogue by Sonia Del Re with Kirsten Appleyard and contributions by Erika Dolphin. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada, the catalogue showcases remarkable discoveries from the collection.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness extraordinary artworks in Whistler brought to light from the NGC’s vault.
Public Guided Curatorial Tour
with Sonia Del Re, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings & Kirsten Appleyard, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Canada.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
- Edgar Degas, Racehorses, c. 1895-1899, pastel on tracing paper, mounted on cardboard, 55.8 x 64.8 cm. Purchased 1950. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Photo: NGC. - Francisco Goya y Lucientes, A Young Witch Flying on a Rope Swing, c. 1824-1828, black chalk and lithographic crayon on laid paper, 19.1 x 15.5 cm. Purchased 1923. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.
- Théodore Géricault, Dying Paris Supplicating Oenone, 1816, pen and brown ink over graphite with brown wash on beige wove paper, 13.7 x 21.7 cm.
Purchased 2014. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC. - Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Algerian Landscape, with the Atlas Mountains in the Distance, 1860-1861, watercolour over graphite, heightened with gum arabic on cream wove paper, 62.7 x 101.2cm. Gift of the Dennis T. Lanigan Collection, 2023. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.
- Vassily Kandinsky, Braun, 1924, watercolour, gouache and ink on beige wove paper, 48.6 x 33.8 cm. Partial gift in memory of Martin Landmann, 2024. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.
The Audain Art Museum gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Resort Municipality of Whistler.
The Resort Municipality of Whistler is grateful to be on the shared, unceded territory of the Lil’wat People, known in their language as Lil̓wat7ul, and the Squamish People, known in their language as Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and respects and commits to a deep consideration of their history, culture, stewardship and voice.