Calumet Island Funeral (The Burial)

Gerald Trottier

BIRTH YEAR 1925
BIRTH PLACE Ottawa, Ontario
DEATH YEAR 2004
DEATH PLACE Ottawa, Ontario
MEDIUM Acrylic on canvas
DATE 1981
DIMENSIONS 122cm x 152.4cm
ACCESSION NUMBER 2013.07.24
CREDIT LINE Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery: gift of Irma Trottier, 2013
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
An acrylic painting depicts a funeral scene of an open burial with a closed casket in the ground surrounded by nude figures in the center of a graveyard. There are scattered headstones in a rural landscape, and three cows (animals) at the left bottom corner. The nude figures group together. On the left side of the image, there is a larger headstone and a figure in black robes stands near it. In the background, there is a river cutting across the image and a landscape of rolling, patchwork hills.

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