in support of Russia against the Nazi threat. In 1942, she sold some pieces of her art to donate the proceeds to the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund. She was also appointed by the National Gallery of Canada to record the activities of the Women's Divisions of the Armed Forces during World War II. Parachute Riggers (1947), for example, is a dramatic depiction of women rigging parachutes in a factory near the airbase at Trenton, Ontario. Clark's art from these times reflected her strong political attitude, Petroushka (1937) being the most widely recognised, though the political significance of the work is seen in other works, as in Pavlichenko and Her Comrades at the Toronto City Hall (1943), on which she affirmed her sympathies with the inscription naming the "heroic red army". Her work was to become one of the few politically influenced pieces to survive the era. Later life Paraskeva Clark's eldest son Benedict was hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia after a nervous episode in 1943, and she put her artistic career on hold temporarily; though even when she resumed painting a year later she struggled to balance the responsibilities of her family life with her artistic ambitions. From 1951 to 1956, Clark gave several large solo shows which were favourably received. Her son Clive was married in 1959 and gave her three grandchildren, which were "a source of great delight" for the artist. In a poor turn of events Benedict was again hospitalised because of his mental health 1957, and this impacted Clarks's production of art in a predictable manner. In 1965, after multiple rejections of her work, Clark resigned from the Ontario Society of Artists. Then in 1974, mother and son shared a show together during which the National Gallery of Canada purchased her piece Myself (1933). Many exhibitions of her work and new projects featuring her art came about in these later years of her life, including a 1982 film by the National Film Board of Canada, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Lady. Speaking of her art in 1974, Clark said "I cannot complain, I have had a very good career, considering a great deal of my time has been spent on being a wife and a mother." Philip Clark died in 1980, and after living for a time in a nursing home Paraskeva Clark suffered a stroke and passed away on August 10, 1986,