Canada and the First World War

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A Copse, Evening
A line of soldiers (at right) trek through a muddy, shelled, and barren landscape, while searchlights in the distance scan the evening sky. The title of this A.Y. Jackson painting suggests that the area had once been heavily wooded, a powerful comment on the war's devastation of the natural landscape.

A Copse, Evening
Painted by Alexander Young Jackson
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 19710261-0186