, 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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Window, 1960
Michael Snow
Canadian, 1929
wood, acrylic, polyethylene, glass, paper, cotton, wire, sheet metal, chrome-plated sheet metal
86.4 x 67.3 x 10.2 cm
Purchased 1970
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15922)
Michael Snow’s "Window" is an assemblage of elements placed in the same visual plane that generates a still life of objects one might find in an office setting. Snow’s investigation into perceptual phenomena echoes the artist’s earlier topological paintings of flattened tables and chairs. Here, however, emphasis is on a window frame that places natural boundaries on the gaze and controls the viewer’s visual periphery. This sculpture was included in the Dada exhibition at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, which ran from December 1961 to January 1962.
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