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The Death of General Wolfe

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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Gatineau Madonna, 1940

André Biéler
Swiss, Canadian, 1896 - 1989
tempera on masonite
92 x 107.4 cm
Purchased 1945
National Gallery of Canada (no. 4610)

Let the artist be in contact with life around him, his feet on the ground. Then, when the wind of international ideas blows, it will only freshen and sharpen his original creative power . . . Today the artist is returning to the study of life, people working, the crowds of city streets, the social aspect which is so much of our time . . . The importance of the Mexican contribution . . . [consists] in . . . the revival of mural painting, . . . whose existence . . . has set up, in the minds of the public, the idea that the artist can, and should, function as a normally necessary member of national life. André Biéler, address at the Conference on Canadian-American Affairs, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 14'18 June 1937

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