, 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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Parceled Shoes for the Long Distance Runner, December 1970
Betty Goodwin
Canadian, 1923
- 2008
colour soft-ground etching and drypoint on wove paper
55.8 x 63 cm; plate: 37 x 45.3 cm
Gift of Betty and Martin Goodwin, Montreal, 1999
National Gallery of Canada (no. 40240)
© Betty Goodwin
This print is a lyrical return to a subject broached a year earlier, when Goodwin equated running shoes with the astronaut's boots that left the first footprints on the moon's surface.
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