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The Sadness of the Somme

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Date:

ca. 1920

Reference:

R5966, Volume number: 11

Item no. (creator):

Item-19

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2835991

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Mary Riter Hamilton collection

The Sadness of the Somme
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Date(s):

ca. 1920

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting : oil on plywood
Support 46.100 x 59.500 cm
Platemark 57.000 x 71.000 cm

Language of material:

no language

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This is item 21 in the Hamilton inventory., Digitization Project: World War I.

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Artist: Hamilton, Mary Riter, 1867-1954

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Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: Impressions of the Battlefields after the Armistice. Curators: London England, Surrey House, 1923, cat. no.: #21., Exhibition title: Mary Rita Hamilton, 1973-1954. Curators: Robert Amos, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia; 1978.08.23 - 1978.10.15, cat. no.: no. 16., Exhibition Title: No Man's Land - The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton 1919-1922.National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1993.03.25-1993.04.25
Further Venue: Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia: 1994.10.31-1994.12.02
Further Venue: Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: 1995.10.24-1995.12.03, Exhibition Title: Against Time. Curators: Yvonne Ploum and Petra Halkes, Armando Museum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands [Holland]; 2002.10.06 - 2003.03.16., Exhibition Title : No Man's Land - The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curator: Dr. Sarah McKinnon, Thunder Bay Museum, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 2001.10.01 - 2001.11.15., Exhibition title: No Man's Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton. Curators: National Archives, Ottawa, Ontario.
Further Venue: Red Deer and District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta; 2004.10.02-2004.11.28., Exhibition Title: No Man's Land - The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curator: Dr. Sarah McKinnon, University of Winnipeg Art Gallery and Jim Burant National Archives of Canada in partnership with The War Amputations of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1989.11.05 - 1990.01.12., Exhibition title: Last 100 Days and WW1 Legacy. Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, Shilo, Manitoba; 2018.05.17 - 2018.12.31., Exhibition Title: No Man's Land - The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton 1919-1922. Curator: Dr. Sarah McKinnon, University of Winnipeg Art Gallery and Jim Burant National Archives of Canada in partnership with The War Amputations of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.11.05 - 1999.01.04, Exhibition Title: Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory. Curator: Kevin Rice, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; 2006.11.11 - 2007.02.04
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 2007.11.03 - 2008.01.06
Further Venue: Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario; 2008.05.09 - 2008.06.22

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in black oil paint, recto l.l.: Mary Riter Hamilton ("Hamilton" partly underlined); printed label in blue ink, verso t.: ENVOI de (in pen and black ink) Mary Riter Hamilton / The sadness of the Somme / (in printed blue ink) REMIS le (partly stroked out in black ink) (in pen and black ink) 3 Rue Joseph Bara Paris (Complete transcription)
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World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 France Somme
Source:

Private

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00019
1988-180 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted.

Volume [R5966]

[Consultation 90 Open]

11 Item no. assigned by LAC 19

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1988-180]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-104799 Item no. assigned by LAC 19

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Acc. No. 1988-180-19, item level R5966-19 / e011205200
Copyright: Expired

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