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Naoko Matsubara, The Water Spirit Takes Human Form and is Captured, 2002.

Tales in Line and Colour: Woodcut Prints

by Naoko Matsubara

Curated by Debra Antoncic 
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​May 17 - September 13, 2025

First floor, long gallery

This exhibition features woodcut prints and collages by artist Naoko Matsubara. The works in this exhibition are drawn from the artist’s extensive exploration of the world of nature and Japanese folklore. These two broad themes showcase the integration of movement and colour, of structure and form, in Matsubara’s work. 
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Utagawa Kunisada (Gototei) Untitled- Kabuki Actor Sawamura Gen'Nosuke, c,1831

Prints from the Collection

Curated by Debra Antoncic

March 28, 2025 - ongoing
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First floor

The permanent collection at RiverBrink includes a significant number of prints, created using various techniques and materials. This exhibition focuses on just two types of prints, woodblock/wood engraving and stonecut prints. 
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Olivier Foss, Vue de Paris, c. 1955. Oil on canvas. The Weir Foundation.

Invisible Cities––(Sub)urban scenes

from the Collection

Curated by Moyu Chen

May 7, 2025 - ongoing

Second floor

In his novel Invisible Cities (1972), Italian author Italo Calvino describes fifty-five cities through fictitious conversations between Venetian explorer Marco Polo annd Kublai Khan. Unlike Calvino's writings, the scenes featured in this exhibition all come from real places. But can we possibly make out the true face of a city whiile we are living in it––immersed, yeet lost in its very heart? Do the layers of a city remain invisible to us from a single viewpoint?  
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Lauren Stewart Harris, Study for "In the Ward 1, City Paintings," 1918. Oil on cardboard. Samuel E. Weir Collection.

Centre and Periphery: The

Group of Seven

Curated by Asta McCann

September 28, 2024 - ongoing

Second floor

The Group of Seven has become synonymous with ideas of an untouched, seemingly uninhabited Canadian wilderness. These artists, however, also sketched and painted urban locations, with clear evidence of civilization and industry. Drawing from a selection of artworks in the Samuel E. Weir Collection, this exhibition considers the complex relationship between the urban centre and rural periphery in paintings by members of the Group.

Adopt an Artwork

​Ongoing
Adopting an art work from the permanent collection at RiverBrink is a unique way to support the art museum. Although adopted art works remain at RiverBrink, your financial support enables you to establish a special connection with a beloved work of art.

You may choose from one of five annual giving levels, starting at $50. Your adoption helps support ongoing care and conservation of art works and helps ensure the future of the collection.

For more information and to view the artwork available for adoption click here.

Suzor-Coté at RiverBrink

Ongoing

Curated by Debra Antoncic
Lower Level 

Bronze sculptures by the 20th-century Québec artist are on permanent display in the library. Beginning in the 1940s, Sam Weir commissioned the casting of the bronzes with the goal of acquiring a representative survey of the artist’s work in sculpture. This project was continued following Weir’s death.
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