, 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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Dorothy, A Resemblance, 1981
Liz Magor
Canadian, 1948
lead and steel
90 x 121.5 x 86 cm assembled
Purchased 1983
National Gallery of Canada (no. 28142)
Liz Magor's "Dorothy, A Resemblance" is a portrait built around a woman's own account of how her weight reflected the changes in her life. Suggesting a plain, practical person, the "supplies" - matchbooks, candles, fishing sinkers, light bulbs, and so on - are formed of lead, a material associated with weight, and are stacked in groups of varying weights to represent the phases of the subject's life.
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