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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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The Gas Station, 1963
George Segal
American, 1924
- 2000
2 plaster figures, Coca-Cola machine, 71 glass bottles, 4 wooden crates, metal stand, 8 rubber tires, tire rack, 30 oil cans, electric clock, 6 concrete blocks, 2 windows of wood and plate glass
installation space: 2.59 x 7.32 x 1.22 m
Purchased 1968
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15560)
© Copyright George Segal, courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery
"When I first showed "The Gas Station" a lot of people were horrified at fifteen feet of blank emptiness in the centre of the piece. They cited the then current ad for an art school correspondence course: "Do you make these mistakes in composition?" I was more concerned with how it felt to be in and pass by gas stations. The piece is twenty-five feet of darkness punctuated by abrupt geometric forms that resemble tires, oil cans, a coke machine. I'm interested in the colours, the lights, the tired young man, the energetic older man, how long it takes me to walk the long corridor. It struck me later that the walking man in coveralls would look like St. John the Baptist if he turned his hand up the other way." George Segal, May 1968
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