In Conversation with Dr. Sonia Del Re: The Intimate Life of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada

In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Sonia Del Re, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada. CiTR 101.9 FM / The Blue Hour Prerecorded on July 9, 2026 You can listen to the episode on CiTR. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on YouTube The Blue Hour, hosted by Farha Guerrero, airs live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. on CiTR 101.9 FM in Vancouver and at citr.ca. Sonia Del Re holds a Master’s degree in Museology and a PhD in Art History. She first interned at the National Gallery of Canada in 2004–05 and officially joined its curatorial team in 2006. Today, she oversees a remarkable collection of more than 27,000 works of art on paper, created around the world between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. Her curatorial work spans Dutch landscapes, the Carracci, Chagall, Pre-Raphaelite drawings, Picasso’s Vollard Suite, Venetian portraiture, early European monsters, and, most recently, Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault. In our conversation, we…