Military Lecture - Battlefield Painter Mary Riter Hamilton

Guelph Museums

Guelph Museums' online military lecture series continues with Dr. Irene Gammel

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<h1>Military Lecture – The Power of Witnessing in the Work of Battlefield Painter Mary Riter Hamilton</h1><h2>Presented by Dr. Irene Gammel</h2><h2>Hosted by Ken Irvine, Guelph Museums </h2><h3>Offered in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies.</h3><p>Dr. Irene Gammel presents, “The Power of Witnessing in the Work of Battlefield Painter Mary Riter Hamilton”. </p><p>Canadian painter Mary Riter Hamilton blazed a trail by painting the First World War graveyards and battlefields in oil and daring to be—unofficially—Canada’s first female war artist. In 1919, just a few months after the armistice, she arrived overseas and worked amid harrowing conditions—inadequate shelter and food, surroundings littered with unexploded shells. In some 320 haunting paintings, she captured the emotional landscapes and destroyed sites where Canadian soldiers had fought. </p><p>Irene Gammel will speak about the extraordinary life of this long-forgotten Canadian artist discussing how her paintings render powerful meanings as acts of witnessing. She will give insight into her own travels to Vimy Ridge, the Somme, and Flanders, while ending her talk with a brief reading from her new book on the topic.</p><p>Learn more about Dr. Gammel and her book &quot;I Can Only Paint&quot; at guelphmuseums.ca</p><p><strong>Please note: WebEx Access link and password will be sent to attendees by email the day of the lecture.</strong></p><p><strong>This event is being recorded and live-streamed on Facebook.</strong></p>

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