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Mary Riter Hamilton (7 September – 5 April ) was a Canadian painter, etcher, drawing artist, textile artist, and ceramics artist.
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Mary Riter Hamilton
Canadian artist
Mary Riter Hamilton | |
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| Born | (1867-09-07)September 7, 1867 Culross, Ontario |
| Died | April 5, 1954(1954-04-05) (aged 86) Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Spouse | Charles W.
Hamilton |
Mary Riter Hamilton (7 September 1867 – 5 April 1954) was a Canadian painter, etcher, drawing artist, textile artist, and ceramics artist who spent much of her career painting abroad in countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, and the United States.
She gained renown as Canada’s first female battlefield artist, pioneering an empathetic style of painting the trenches and ruined towns of Belgium and France in the immediate aftermath of the Great War.[1] Among her most famous works are her oil on cardboard Trenches on the Somme (1919), her oil on wove paper Isolated Grave and Camouflage, Vimy Ridge (1919), and her oil on board Market Among the Ruins of Ypres,[2][3] a depiction of