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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
A. Y. Jackson
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A. Y. Jackson
Age: 91 †
Born: 1882
Born: October 3
Died: 1974
Died: May 5
Painter
Montreal
Quebec
Alexander Young-Jackson
Alexander Young Jackson
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