, 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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Tarpaulin No. 3, 1975
Betty Goodwin
Canadian, 1923
- 2008
gesso, pastel, chalk, and charcoal on canvas with metal grommets and rope
231 x 293.5 cm
Purchased 1976
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18532)
© Betty Goodwin
Betty Goodwin has said of her use of worn, mended, and weathered tarpaulins that "they retain their own history, to which I add my own history." Folding and re-folding the tarpaulins and infusing them with substances like gesso, she adds her own layer of meaning to their surfaces without denying their unknowable pasts.
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