View of Victoria Hospital, Second Series, February 10, 1969–March 10, 1971

Greg Curnoe, View of Victoria Hospital, Second Series, February 10, 1969–March 10, 1971, oil, rubber stamp and ink, graphite, and wallpaper on plywood, in Plexiglas strip frame, with audiotape, tape player, loudspeakers, and eight-page text (photocopied from a rubber-stamped notebook), 243.8 x 487 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The windows in Curnoe’s studio gave him a view across the Thames River in London, Ontario, to Victoria Hospital, where he and so many of his family and friends had been born or had died. View of Victoria Hospital, Second Series is accompanied by an audio tape and a text that records the time and date of sights from his window during the two years it took to complete the work—the lights he saw at night; the birds and insects that flew by; the windows of the rooms where artist Jack Chambers (1931–1978), his father, and others were patients.
Gallery

Myself Walking North in the Tweed Coat, 1963

Drawer Full of Stuff, 1961

Homage to the R 34, October 1967–March 1968

The True North Strong and Free, #1–5, 1968

Blue Book #8, 1989

View of Victoria Hospital, Second Series, February 10, 1969–March 10, 1971

Mariposa 10 Speed No. 2, 1973

Map of North America, 1972

Deeds #5, August 19–22, 1991