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I Can Only Paint - The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton (Hardcover)
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I Can Only Paint - The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton (Hardcover)
Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
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For Canadian impressionist Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the
emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months
after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and
defined her work. A woman alone after the storm had passed, she
found that her life after the war was indelibly marked by the
experience. Undeterred by a rejection from the Canadian War
Memorials Fund, who nominated only male war artists abroad, in 1919
Hamilton received a commission from the Amputation Club of British
Columbia (now the War Amps) to commemorate those lost at war. She
travelled from Victoria to the pre-reconstruction battlefields and
towns of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and the Ypres Salient where amid
harsh conditions - inadequate shelter and food, surroundings
littered with unexploded shells - she recorded with determination,
pride, and grace the ruins of war. Based on intensive archival
research in Canada, France, and Belgium, and using many previously
unpublished letters, I Can Only Paint offers an insider's view of
the artist's vast, underexplored body of war work and the
conditions in which she created it. It places this period, central
though it was, in the context of a full understanding of her life
and restores the work she created there to its proper place in the
canon of war art in Canada and abroad. Irene Gammel argues that
Hamilton's work encoded a female perspective that distinguishes her
paintings from the work of official Canadian war artists. The first
reliable account of Hamilton's impressions of Canada's most
haunting sites of conflict, I Can Only Paint captures with detail
and sensitivity an experience that defined her life and recovers a
body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the
effects of the Great War.
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