L’Escarmouche (Paris), year 1, no. 6 (17 December 1893) Left: Illustration by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Right : Ilustration by Félix Vallotton (1865-1925)

Occasional Papers Series

No. 1.  Library and Archives Collection Development Policy. 1997. (Available without charge from the Library. Request)
   
No. 2.  Index to the National Gallery of Canada Bulletin and Annual Bulletin, by Maija Vilcins, introduction by Jo Beglo. 1998. (Available from the Gallery Bookstore.$12.95 Order)
   
No. 3.  Artists in Canada: a Union List of Artists' Files, by Cyndie Campbell and Sylvie Roy. New edition.   
   
No. 4.  Art at Auction: a Bibliographical Listing of Nineteenth-Century Canadian Catalogues, by Jonathan Franklin. (Available from the Gallery Bookstore. $24.95 Order)  
   
No. 5.  Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865: A compendium of Photographers and their works, by Roger Taylor.  (Available from the Gallery Bookstore $100.00 Order)
 
No. 6.  Index to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Catalogues of Art.  Index by artist to works of art exhibited in Canada during the19th century and recorded in contemporary exhibition and auction catalogues. Database of 43,629 records from 266 catalogues available within the Library.  (Print version available from the Gallery Bookstore $175.00 Order)  (Contact: Jonathan Franklin) 

No. 7. Index to National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogues and Checklists 1880-1930. An index of catalogues and checklists for exhibitions held at or organized by the National Gallery of Canada between 1880 and 1930. The index is arranged alphabetically by artist and consists of over 10,000 entries. Forthcoming. (Contact: Philip Dombowsky).

Research and Bibliographic Projects

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon.  The Library houses the editorial office for Canadian entries to the new edition of the dictionary. (Contact: Dr. Beate Stock)  
   
Archives of Max Stern and the Dominion Gallery, Montreal.  Preparation of online finding aid. Funded by the Executors of the Estate of Max Stern and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. In progress.  (Contact: Cyndie Campbell)

Art auction catalogues.  This research project aims to compile a bibliographical study of the art auction catalogue from the early 17th century to date. The project has been supported by the Art Libraries Society of North America (H.W. Wilson Research Award, 2001) and the Getty Research Institute (Library Research Grant, 2001). (Contact: Jonathan Franklin). 
   
Artists in Canada.  The website gives a description of the database and a list of current participants. (Contact: Sylvie Roy)

The History of Art Libraries in Canada.  A national project of ARLIS/Canada, sponsored by the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, with additional special project funding from the Art Libraries Society of North America.  Jo Nordley Beglo, National Gallery of Canada, is the national editor, working with regional editors.  Includes a range of essays by Canadian art librarians, presenting research on the bibliography of Canadian art, the history of Canadian art libraries and their collections, biographies of pioneers in the field of Canadian art librarianship, and a chronology of art library development in Canada.  Notes, bibliographies and illustrations support the texts. (Contact: Jo Beglo)

Inuit Artists Print Workbook.  Online index to the print production of the Canada Arctic from 1957 to 2003, compiled by Sandra Buhai Barz, New York.  In progress. (Contact: Jonathan Franklin)

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).  The Library is responsible for the contribution of new Canadian imprints to BHA. (Contact: Jo Beglo)  

National Gallery of Canada Exhibition History Project.  Creation of online records in the Library catalogue for all research materials housed in the Library and Archives which relate to the exhibition history of the institution, 1880 to the present.  (Contact: Cyndie Campbell)

Chronological lists of National Gallery of Canada exhibitions, 1880-2003, and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibitions, 1985-2002, have been compiled. (Contact: Cyndie Campbell)

SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs.  The Library is responsible for the contribution of cataloguing data for current Canadian auction catalogues. The Library's entire auction catalogue collection, both Canadian and non-Canadian, has been entered in SCIPIO, with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. (Contact: Jonathan Franklin)