National Gallery Creates New Research Fellowship
Benjamin West, "The Death of General Wolfe," 1770
oil on canvas, 60" x 84.5" (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster to the Canadian War Memorials, 1918, Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, photo by National Gallery of Canada)
The National Gallery of Canada has created a new annual fellowship to encourage research into Canadian and Indigenous Canadian war and military art.
The Rodger and Joann McLennan Canadian War Art Research Fellowship is valued at up to $5,000 annually.
It's open to Canadian and international art historians, curators, critics, conservators, graduate students and other professionals working in the visual arts or in museology and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
The deadline for applications is Dec. 2.
For information, go to https://www.gallery.ca/research/fellowships.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
