, 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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Wagon I, 1963-1964
David Smith
American, 1906
- 1965
steel with black paint
224.8 x 308.6 x 162.5 cm
Purchased 1968
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15703)
David Smith, Wagon I, 1963-1964 ©VAGA (New York) / SODART (Montréal) 2003
David Smith believed it was the carved stone wheels depicted on Hindu temples that gave him the idea of placing his sculpture on wheels, and provided a solution for his concern about renewing the base of sculptures. While these wheels are factory produced and functional, the rest of the sculpture is pure invention. Smith learned to weld as a young man when working in the Studebaker factory in South Bend, Indiana. In fabricating works by welding - rather than casting or carving - Smith radically transformed sculpture in his time.
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