, 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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untitled (in honour of Leo at the 30th anniversary of his gallery), 1987
Dan Flavin
American, 1933
- 1996
red, pink, yellow, blue, and green fluorescent light
122 x 122 x 20 cm approx.
Gift of the artist, Wainscott, New York, 1994
National Gallery of Canada (no. 37580)
© Estate of Dan Flavin / ARS (New York) / SODRAC (Montréal)
Flavin's revolutionary decision in the 1960s to make art out of electric light, specifically fluorescent tubes in different colours and combinations, was in keeping with his contemporaries' interest in unconventional materials. From these mass-produced, off-the-shelf items, Flavin created artworks that were anything but standardized. This piece is dedicated to Leo Castelli, one of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century. Castelli had foresight, and through his New York gallery discovered and promoted many unknown American artists who would become the icons of Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual art - among them Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Andy Warhol, and Donald Judd.
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the nominal three (to William of Ockham)
icon IV (the pure land) (to David John Flavin 1933-1962)
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