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The Death of General Wolfe

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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Exhibitions

Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet

01 Feb 2013 - 21 Apr 2013

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba

The publicly and critically acclaimed Forty-Part Motet is spending the Winter in Winnipeg. This brilliant sound sculpture by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff is a reworking of Spem in Alium (1575) by Thomas Tallis, an English composer from the 16th century. Forty separately-recorded choir voices are played back through speakers positioned in a circle in the exhibition space, inviting visitors to stand inside the music.

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JANET CARDIFF. View of <em>Forty-Part Motet</em> at the Rideau Chapel, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC

JANET CARDIFF. View of Forty-Part Motet at the Rideau Chapel, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC