, 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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The Distant City, 1956
Jean Paul Lemieux
Canadian, 1904
- 1990
oil on canvas
49.1 x 110.3 cm
Purchased 1957
National Gallery of Canada (no. 6685)
For Jean Paul Lemieux the city was a source of anxiety and he would most often depict it from a distance. Here, we are offered but a glimpse of the city situated on the elongated horizon and obscured by the rise of the hill. Inspired by both "kakemonos" (tall vertical scrolls) and "makimonos" (long horizontal scrolls) of Japanese art, Lemieux embraced the compositional hurdles created by these formats.
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