A solitary soldier approaches the crest of Vimy Ridge in February 1918 in this work by Gyrth Russell, one of many Canadian war artists to depict the symbolic field. After the Canadians captured the ridge in April 1917, the Germans never retook it. The few battered trees indicate the destruction caused by the fighting.
Painted by Gyrth Russell
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 19710261-0617
Canada and the First World War
