The Pimple, Evening
A. Y. Jackson · 1918
Why it's great
A bare, shell-torn hill called the Pimple glows red in the evening light near Vimy Ridge, where Canadian troops had fought in 1917. A.Y. Jackson, who later helped found the Group of Seven, painted it in 1918.
🏛️ Part of history
World War I (1914–1918) — A bare, shell-torn hill called the Pimple glows red in the evening light near Vimy Ridge, where Canadian troops had fought in 1917.
Where to see it
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A. Y. Jackson was a Canadian painter born in Montreal in 1882. He was a founding member of the Group of Seven, an official war artist in World War I, and one of the painters who made rugged northern landscapes famous. He died in Kleinburg, Ontario, in 1974.
