Inspiration

 Here we have the model of a full scale work. The Welland-Crowland War Memorial is a 1934 work by Elizabeth Wyn-Wood. She designed the memorial, residing in the town of Welland, Ontario, to feature both the soldier and a woman harvester.

Larger scale plaster busts are featured here from her designs.

Molly Lamb Bobak went to war in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, and by 1945 was officially commissioned as a war artist. This is Canadian Women Army Corps Looking At The Ruins.

Mary Riter Hamilton painted Gun Emplacements, Farbus Woods, Vimy Ridge in 1919, commissioned by a veterans group to paint battlegrounds after the Great War.

This is another work by Molly Lamb Bobak- Meal Parade, Hamilton Trades School, a 1943 painting.

And this is her work Basic Trainees Learning To Stand At Ease, a 1946 painting.

One of her most famous works is Private Foy, Canadian Women's Army Corps, depicting Eva Roy, a black servicewoman.

For today I finish off with Lady Drummond, by Florence Carlyle, painted around 1918, depicting the assistant commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross during the Great War.