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The Death of General Wolfe

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, No. 54, 1993

David Rabinowitch
Canadian, 1943
charcoal and beeswax on wove paper
102.9 x 69.5 cm
Purchased 1999
National Gallery of Canada (no. 40061)
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In the 1970s David Rabinowitch regularly visited New York's Central Park, where he made small sketches of a beech tree. More than twenty years later, Rabinowitch returned his focus to trees - in this instance elms in another New York green space, Tompkins Square Park. These large-scale works, drawn with a crayon composed of ground charcoal and beeswax, are ecstatic in their sense of movement, as the interplay of lines and sweeping gestures seem to echo the constant shifting of the artist's eye from his subject to the page.

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