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

Photograph of a wide painting by Greg Curnoe depicting a hospital surrounded by a field, trees, houses, and a blue sky. The scene is rendered in a flat style in bright colours. Circled numbers dot the work and are placed throughout the piece on top of the trees, buildings, and sky.

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.

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