, 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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Charred Beloved II, 1946
Arshile Gorky
Armenian, American, 1904
- 1948
oil on canvas
137 x 101.6 cm
Purchased 1971
National Gallery of Canada (no. 16690)
© Estate of Arshile Gorky / ADAGP (Paris) / SODRAC (Montréal)
Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanig Manoog Adoian in Khorkom, a small Armenian village on the shores of Lake Van, then part of Turkey. He immigrated to the United States in 1920, where he remained passionate about his Armenian heritage throughout his life. Gorky became a pioneer of abstraction, combining Cubist and Surrealist influences in paintings that frequently made reference to his childhood. In January 1946, a fire destroyed the barn that Gorky used as a studio: "I was not able to save not a painting nor a drawing and all my books burned and turned to dust." He commemorated his loss in "Charred Beloved II", in which the somber mood and dark colors of the organic forms refer to his burned paintings.
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