, 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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Karoo Ashevak
Canadian (Inuit), 1940
- 1974
whalebone, ivory, antler ?, and stone
29.2 x 68.5 x 15.3 cm
Purchased 1989
National Gallery of Canada (no. 30353)
© Public Trustee of Nunavut. Estate of Karoo Ashevak
Sometimes I make figures with funny faces or scary faces taht I see in my dreams. Sometimes I carve faces of spirits from old Eskimo stories. They scare me too. - Karoo Ashevak, 1973 Karoo's distortion of features and imaginative use of whale bone helped define the so-called expressionistic style of the Kitikmeot (Central Arctic) region. The different shapes of the eyes, signifying exceptional sight, and the mittened hand, a symbol of magical ability, suggest that this figure may be a shaman.
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