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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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Column, 1967-1968

Ulysse Comtois
Canadian, 1931 - 1999
67 aluminum plates on steel base
195.6 x 162.5 x 162.5 cm overall at maximum extension; aluminum plates: 121.5 x 22.1 x 2.3 cm each; pedestal/base: 122 cm diameter
Commissioned 1968
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15261)

ATTENTION! Feel free to give any shape you want to this sculpture. Gently move the aluminum plates. The artist wishes you to share in the pleasure of the handling of the forms in space. For safety reasons, children should be supervised. ONE PERSON AT A TIME, PLEASE

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