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Following the December book launch of Dr. Irene Gammel’s new book, I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton, the MLC Research Centre is excited to invite you to a virtual talk with Dr. Gammel where she will discuss the life of Hamilton and the process of writing her biography.
The talk will be moderated by Dr. Geoff Bird, Research Lead for Royal Roads University’s War Heritage Research Initiative, and hosted by Royal Roads University and MLC Reseach Centre.
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.
I Can Only Paint offers an insider's view of the artist's vast, underexplored body of war work and the conditions in which she created it. It places this period, central though it was, in the context of a full understanding of her life and restores the work she created there to its proper place in the canon of war art in Canada and abroad. Irene Gammel argues that Hamilton's work encoded a female perspective that distinguishes her paintings from the work of official Canadian war artists.