I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton Volume 31

by Irene Gammel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228003911
• ISBN13: 9780228003915
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 10.1"