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Houses of Ypres
Painted in 1917 by A.Y. Jackson (1882–1974)

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"What to paint was a problem for the war artist. . . . The old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone for ever; The impressionist technique I had adopted in painting was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough."

— A. Y. Jackson, Canadian First World War artist

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