, 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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Child's Sweater, 1989
Liz Magor
Canadian, 1948
Cowichan wool sweater, bird skull of brown cardboard and paper tape with black and iron-oxide-red paint, twine-woven paper hanging with iron-oxide-red paint
360.7 x 198.1 cm
Purchased 1990
National Gallery of Canada (no. 30723)
Liz Magor plays on the element of fiction or dramatization that often colours museum displays. "Child's Sweater" is a museum-like display of hand-made artifacts - the bark blanket backdrop is painted paper, while the enormous paper birdskull, recalling both Northwest carving and a natural specimen, carries in its bill a tiny Cowichan sweater. In these works, Magor questions the subtexts of museum display, its claims to authenticity, and its implicit theatricality, asking us to reconsider where the meanings of such displays might lie.
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