Night Travellers, Painted around 1943 by T. R. MacDonald (1908-1979). A rare painting of service personnel on a train, their faces etched with fatigue and concern.
A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.
— Frances Cornford
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visit the Canvas of War exhibit (currently at the Canadian War Museum) online to view more Canadian art relating to the 1st and 2nd world wars. I was a guide at the CDN Museum of Civilizations when this exhibit was first shown, and I used to love being posted there. It was a solemn, quiet environment that played my favorite symphony, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, softly in the background. Suddenly screaming children and obnoxious tourists became hushed as they walked the corridors full of beautiful, anguished, haunting art.
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/cwint01e.html
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