, 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 Mouth Organ Player, 1924
Adrien Hébert
Canadian, 1890
- 1967
oil on canvas
109.7 x 68 cm
Purchased 1994
National Gallery of Canada (no. 37594)
Against a background of a log cabin, rolling hills and cloud filled sky, an unidentified musician stands on a platform or deck. The music of his harmonica is linked to nature and to the rural life of farmers and loggers not to the city. In the 1920s Hébert's friend the musician Léo-Pol Morin and others promoted the growth of an indigenous Canadian music derived from popular or folk traditions, an ideal evoked in this superb full-length portrait.
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