Flanders Fields: 25 Years of Depicting British Trench Poetry

Delaware Contemporary
on view from October 4, 2019 — January 5, 2020
Beckler Family Members’ Gallery

Opening reception:
Art Loop Wilmington
Friday, October 4, 5 p.m. — 9 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

In 1994, artist Constance Cone heard the Philadelphia Orchestra perform Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem,” a dramatic composition commissioned to celebrate the rebuilding of the Coventry Cathedral destroyed in WWII. Stunned by the music’s power—a Latin Mass interspersed with writings by poet Wilfred Owen written while he was a soldier with the British troops and living in the trenches in France during WWI—Cone began to read the verse of the “Trench Poets.” This led to a 25-year response, a body of work that includes paintings, prints, and drawings.