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Mary Riter was born in Culross, Ontario (now part of South Bruce, ON), on 7 September 1867.While there has been confusion regarding the year of her birth with scholars, curators, and archivists speculating that she was born in 1874, 1868, or 1867, Irene Gammel’s 2020 book I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton uses Census data to document that the accurate ...
In Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to Vietnam (1981), Griffith put forward ideas about the "empty battlefield" or how increased fire-power had led to military formations becoming increasingly disaggregated. The conclusion he drew was that the willingness to close with the enemy was a key factor.
The Art of the Illustrator: F. Matania and His Work. Percy V. Bradshaw (London: Press Art School, 1918). Drawing From History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania. Lucinda Gosling, James Gurney, and Fortunino Matania, (London: Palace Books, 2016). Illustrating Armageddon: Fortunino Matania and the First World War. Jim Davies, Lucinda Gosling ...
The years of warfare were the backdrop for art which is now preserved and displayed in such institutions as the Imperial War Museum in London, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Official war artists were commissioned by the British Ministry of Information and the authorities of other countries.
Pages in category "World War I in art" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Les Alliés (woodcut) B.
He decided to depict a section of the Ypres Salient, that had been devastated during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, at the top of the Bassevillebeek Spur, where the British called a cluster of German pill boxes Tower Hamlets. [3] Nash originally intended to call the painting A Flanders Battlefield but eventually chose The Menin Road. [4]
The classically inspired Menin Gate in Ypres. World War I is remembered and commemorated by various war memorials, including civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict.
As late as 2007, unexploded ordnance at battlefield sites like Verdun and Somme continued to pose a danger. In France and Belgium, locals who discover caches of unexploded munitions are assisted by weapons disposal units. In some places, plant life has still not recovered from the effects of the war. [343]