, 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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Favourite Daughter, 1985
Jessie Oonark
Canadian (Inuit), 1906
- 1985
colour stonecut and stencil on laid japan paper
Printed by Magdalene Ukpatiku
94.5 x 62.8 cm
Gift of Dorothy M. Stillwell, M.D., 1987
National Gallery of Canada (no. 29915)
© Public Trustee of Nunavut. Estate of Jessie Oonark
Oonark had a keen interest in clothing design and often portrayed garments from other parts of the Arctic, as well as those of the Baker Lake region where she lived. Here, a young woman wears an elaborately decorated coat inspired by the western Arctic style that is sometimes called a "Mother Hubbard" parka. However, the sectioning of the garment into areas of colour and the addition of decorative motifs - the v-shapes, the y-shapes, and the circles (perhaps inspired by the incised markings on ancient Inuit ivories) - are Oonark's own additions.
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