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.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116167459" class="extiw" title="d:Q116167459">Vivian John Cummings</a>
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