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Exclusive excerpt: Robert Amos on the war art of E.J. Hughes

Legion Magazine — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:28:51 +0000

E.J. Hughes attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1929-1935, and was recognized as the most talented artist of his generation on the West Coast. But the Great Depression made an art career impossible at that time. Reflecting on the years he had enjoyed as a cadet, he enlisted in the army on Aug. 30, …

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Sketchbook brings soldiers to life

Stephen J. Thorne — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:46:31 +0000

Richard Johnson is an old-school war artist. He’s walked the hard miles in Iraq and Afghanistan, shunning the camera for pencil and sketchbook, speedily yet meticulously recording soldiers at war and peace in shades of grey. Born in Scotland and now living in Maryland, the man technically known as a news illustrator has taken the …

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Brian Lorimer

Jennifer Morse — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:01:23 +0000

Brian Lorimer paints big, vivid pictures and for the last two years he has dedicated himself to capturing and commemorating the First World War. He has titled this newest series Project Remembrance and it was completed just in time for the centenary. Lorimer was born in Belleville, Ont., in 1961, studied at the Ontario …

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Bruce Stewart

Jennifer Morse — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:01:08 +0000

Inspiration can come from the strangest places. For Ottawa artist Bruce Stewart the idea to paint the military ran down his street three years ago. He explains, “I live…across from the rehab centre and…this great, big guy on two metal legs came jogging down my street and he ran past me… I sorta shook my …

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Canada's War Art: 1812

Jennifer Morse — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:01:14 +0000

The War of 1812 was the first and last time our southern neighbour invaded the territory that is now Canada. But it wasn’t just the British and Canadians at war with the Americans. Even before war was declared in June 1812, aboriginal nations pledged allegiance to Britain and they too fought and died in the …

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The Canadian Forces Artists Program

Jennifer Morse — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:01:27 +0000

Over the last 95 years, more than 200 artists have been charged with capturing the military history of our nation. With their brush strokes they recorded Vimy Ridge, the Somme, D-Day, Korea, Bosnia and Afghanistan to mention only a few. They sketched and painted amidst gunfire, explosions and death, and their work still has an …

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Doug Bradford

Jennifer Morse — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:01:55 +0000

Doug Bradford is a barber. He has been cutting hair for 50 years in his hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and in his spare time he paints. He never went to art school. His only teacher was his mother, who loved art and encouraged all six of her children to sketch and paint. She …

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Scott Waters

Jennifer Morse — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:01:05 +0000

Scott Waters has an unusual vantage point for an artist. Over the last two decades he has created a body of work that both supports and tears down the mythology of soldiering. For the three years before that, he lived it. Twenty-three years ago the artist served as an infantryman in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian …

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Geoffrey Bagley

Jennifer Morse — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:01:57 +0000

In 1985, on the 75th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy, Geoffrey Bagley donated 92 naval artworks to the Canadian War Museum, so in this the centennial year of the navy, it seems fitting to celebrate his contribution to Canada’s war art. The artist was born in England in 1901 and began his education in …

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Karole Marois

Jennifer Morse — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:00:38 +0000

Every Canadian should have the opportunity to travel to Europe and walk in the footsteps of those who served in the First and Second World Wars. There, part of our history is somehow more tangible; it is found in the cemeteries and on the faces of the people who tend them and remember. For one …

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