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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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Thresholds, 1993
Roland Poulin
Canadian, 1940
polychromed wood
242.3 x 344 x 550 cm installed; coffin: 78.8 x 254.5 x 112 cm; cross/tree: 242.3 x 121.7 x 76 cm; floating post: 61.5 x 100.5 x 13.7 cm; step: 9.3 x 109.6 x 16 cm
Purchased 1994
National Gallery of Canada (no. 37492.1-4)
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The whole history of sculpture is one of relationship to death (0 min 45 sec)
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