, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Coming of the Opposite, 1972
Alex Janvier
Canadian, 1935
acrylic on canvas
61.3 x 92.3 cm
Purchased 2003
National Gallery of Canada (no. 41203)
Janvier, the self-styled "first Indian modernist", combines Western abstraction inspired by the Russian Expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky with the shapes and colours of Dene quillwork and beadwork. Moving away from pictorial representation towards the abstract is a technique employed by Janvier as a way to meld these two worlds. This work is signed with both the artist's last name and his treaty number, "287", asserting his personal identity while at the same time refuting the bureaucracies that try to constrain it.
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