, 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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Insert / Press / Deposit, 1989
Robert Fones
Canadian, 1949
aluminum and gelatin silver prints mounted on aluminum
244.7 x 570 cm overall (maximum irregular); left element: 244.7 x 107.2 cm; centre element: 166.5 x 142 cm; right element: 109 x 162 cm
Purchased 1996
National Gallery of Canada (no. 38070.1-12)
© Robert Fones
The pictographic instructions for simple tasks in this piece by Robert Fones - insert the banking card, press the button, deposit the coin - tell us how to engage vast networks of computers, energy, or communications with seemingly no effort, no work. By integrating images of the giant ancient earthworks of the Hopewell people in Ohio, evidence of the economic and aesthetic achievements of this trading culture, Fones reminds us of other ancient networks built, then excavated, by labour.
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