painting, A Poppy Field, France
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20110004-024
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Cummings, Gunner Vivian John
- Date Made Circa 1918
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1917/01/01
- Latest 1918/12/31
- Inscription (verso): 4699
- Medium watercolour
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Measurements Height 8.0 cm, Width 17.1 cm
- Caption A Poppy Field, France
- Additional Information Painted by Vivian Cummings around 1918. This watercolour by Canadian Vivian Cummings is a surprisingly rare depiction of a poppy field. John McCrae's popular 1915 poem, In Flanders Fields, had made the poppy a well-known symbol of the dead. An architect before the war, Cummings fought in France from 1916 to early 1918. He painted this work at some point between August and November 1918, while hospitalized with trench fever.