The Munitions Girls
Stanhope Forbes · 1918
Why it's great
Women work in a roaring factory filling shells for the war effort in 1918. Stanhope Forbes painted this scene of the many women who took on jobs once done by men while the soldiers were away.
🏛️ Part of history
World War I (1914–1918) — Women work in a roaring factory filling shells for the war effort in 1918.
Where to see it
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Stanhope Forbes was an Irish-born English painter born in Dublin in 1857. He settled in Newlyn in Cornwall, where he painted fishermen and villagers in the open air, and founded an art school. He died in Newlyn in 1947.
