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Richard Jack was the first appointed Canadian War Artist. Canadian artillery played a key role in suppressing enemy fire during the assault on Vimy Ridge, and Jack's painting focuses on this element of technology.

Painting. The sky is overcast and dotted with shells and smoke. Bottom centre: two men hand off large shells to load them in an artillery gun to the right. Other men, some wounded, make their way through trenches. — (Richard Jack, Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum, No. 19710261-0160.)

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