, 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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Atara, 1963
Rita Letendre
Canadian, 1928
oil on canvas
199.5 x 228.7 cm
Purchased 1974
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18015)
© Rita Letendre
Rita Letendre painted "Atara" during a stay in Israel with the sculptor Kosso Eloul. The title is a reference to the name of a popular meeting place for Tel Aviv artists, but she also liked the sound of the word. Letendre exhibited with the Automatistes during the 1950s, when she was still "fascinated by the immobility of Aztec art". In the early 1960s, her work evolved toward a kind of art that was "more passionate, more agitated, more tragic", art that displayed increased energy. She maintains that her taste for striking contrasts between bright or warm colours and stark blacks has its source in her Abenaki heritage.
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