, 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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Sea Spirit Composition, 1980
Qaqaq Ashoona
Canadian (Inuit), 1928
- 1996
dark-green stone
74 x 25.1 x 24.6 cm
Gift of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1989
National Gallery of Canada (no. 36237)
While Inuit artists draw upon their lives and culture for inspiration, the sculptures they create may be taken to another level when viewers bring their own associations and find parallels with other artists and art forms. Although separated by time, geography, culture, and language, is it possible that the calm, other-worldly expression of Qaqaq's sea spirit recalls a similar aesthetic expressed in some classical Greek or Asian sculpture?
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