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Women Making Shells
Painted in 1919 by Mabel May (1877–1971)

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Montreal artist Mabel May used an impressionist technique to show women working in a munitions factory. The women in the painting were performing work of an untraditional nature. So was the artist, who was being challenged by new and intriguing subject matter.


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