, 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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White Poppy (Flowers and Brushes I), July 1946
David B. Milne
Canadian, 1882
- 1953
watercolour over graphite on wove paper
36.4 x 54.3 cm
Gift from the Douglas M. Duncan Collection, 1970
National Gallery of Canada (no. 16130)
In the mid-1940s Milne produced many floral still-lifes, which, with an energy that radiated from their centre, were explosive in colour and composition. Schaefer would borrow this compositional motif for one of his strongest images, "Carrion Crow".
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