Sunday, November 24, 2024

Witnesses

 Women Making Shells is a large painting by Mabel May dating to 1919, depicting the factory setting of work to help the war effort of the Great War.


Alma Duncan created Interior Of Boiler Shop (Ship Building) in 1943.


Two sculptures face each other in a display case, the product of a partnership in life and art between the two artists. The Rod Turner is by Frances Loring, done in 1918-19. Furnace Man is by Florence Wyle, also from the same time.


Here we have Maintenance Jobs In The Hangar by Paraskeva Clark, a 1945 work.


Nesta Bowen Horne painted this work, a portrait of Mary Laura Mah (Wong), a Chinese-Canadian woman who served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.


Lilias Torrance Newton was commissioned to paint portraits of soldiers during World War Two. Seen here is Canadian Soldier No. 3 in full and Post Card, Canadian Soldier.


Cathryne Blackley Armstrong painted Decontamination Squad around 1942-44.


This is No. 8 Canadian General Hospital Saint Cloud France, a 1918 work by Caroline Armington.

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