, 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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Abstract Painting, 1950
Lawren S. Harris
Canadian, 1885
- 1970
oil on masonite
73.5 x 79.2 cm
Gift in memory of Aurelie Forbes Stratford, 1991
National Gallery of Canada (no. 36165)
In "Abstract Painting", Harris continues to explore the ideas of "Nature Rhythms". Here, a dark mountain form is mirrored by a similar bright yellow one. A serpentine line unifies and binds the two. The forms appear to float or emerge from a point on the horizon line of a rippled sea, presenting the viewer with a sense of the land, sea, and sky created by the movement of the dynamic forces of nature. The work is a sketch for one of Harris's most significant large abstract paintings, "Northern Image" of 1952, held in the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery collection at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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Abstract with Notes on Science and Art
Richmond Street and Augusta Avenue
Study for "Lighthouse, Father Point"
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