Noon Hour in a Munitions Plant - Ottawa, Ontario
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This bronze relief sculpture by Miss Frances Norma Loring was created in 1918-1919. It is located in the lobby of the Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/07/2018
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Text on the plaque:
Noon in a Munitions Plant
Sculpted by Frances Loring in 1918-1919
Each of the bronze statuettes and one bronze plaque, entitled Noon Hour at a Munitions Plant (c. 1918), expresses a positive, active image of women. The artists have concentrated upon expressing the strength, endurance and dignity of labour itself, rather than simply glorifying the war industry, as some other home front war artists did.
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Noon Hour in a Munitions Plant is a bronze relief by sculptor Frances Loring. Part of the Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, it now graces the lobby of the Canadian War Museum. Loring and Florence Wyle were commissioned in 1918 to do a series of sculptures of “girl war workers” as part of the project to document Canada’s participation in the war.
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Museum Hours:
June 30 to September 3, 2018
Monday to Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday to Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
September 4, 2018 to March 31, 2019
Monday to Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday to Sunday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.