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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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The Solemn Land, 1921
J.E.H. MacDonald
British, Canadian, 1873
- 1932
oil on canvas
122.5 x 153.5 cm
Purchased 1921
National Gallery of Canada (no. 1785)
An austere beauty emanates from this autumn scene on the Montreal River in Ontario's Algoma region. The effect is achieved, in part, by the contrast between the warm tones of the horizontal brushstrokes used to render the calm river and the powerful contours of the majestic hills.
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