, 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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Jonah, 1974
Robert Fones
Canadian, 1949
waxed plywood with pine edging
122.7 x 244.3 x 4 cm with integral frame
Purchased 1974
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18134)
© Robert Fones
This simple, spare form whimsically invites free association. Is it the whale that swallowed the biblical Jonah, punished by God for insubordination and reborn three days later when the whale spat him onto shore? Or is it the plug removed from a knothole in a piece of plywood, the peering eye behind the hole . . . ?
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