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The Death of General Wolfe

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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Reconciliation, 1989

John Greer
Canadian, 1944
marble, bronze, wood
installation dimensions variable
Purchased 1993
National Gallery of Canada (no. 37030.1-7)

John Greer is renowned for his contribution to sculptural practice in Canada and the development of a conceptual approach to sculpture during his teaching career at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. While maintaining the minimalist and conceptual grounding and humourous undercurrents of his earlier work, in 1978 Greer shifted his attention to the more traditional sculptural concerns of shaping hard materials such as stone, bronze and steel into representational forms. In "Reconciliation", Greer renders nature’s minutiae in epic proportions using the sensual materials of marble and bronze. The monumentalization of six organic forms - the pits of an apricot, a cherry, a peach and a plum, an almond, as well as a heart-shaped bronze leaf - encourages the viewer’s engagement with each as a sculptural object, while also placing humankind within nature’s cycles of sustenance, death and regeneration.

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