, 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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Cyprian Sculpture, 1951
Jean Arp
German, French, 1886
- 1966
marble
43 x 56.7 x 32.5 cm
Purchased 1955
National Gallery of Canada (no. 6422)
© Estate of Jean (Hans) Arp / Bild-Kunst (Bon) / SODRAC (Montréal)
Here is how Jean Arp and his wife, the painter and dancer Sophie Taeuber-Arp, summed up the goal of their artmaking: "We do not want to imitate nature, we do not want to copy, we want to create. We want to create as the plant creates its fruit, we don't want to copy. We want to create in an immediate way. As no trace of abstraction exists in the art, we call it concrete art."
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