Red Poppy Field
by Catherine Avilez
Title
Red Poppy Field
Artist
Catherine Avilez
Medium
Photograph - Prints
Description
Red poppies fill a field under large clouds on a summer day in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Aside from being beautiful garden additions, poppies are symbolic of military veterans. During WWI, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian physician serving in Belgium within sight of battlefields where poppies now bloomed wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" to commemorate the soldiers who died there. He himself later died in 1918 of the Spanish Flu. Moina Michael, a YMCA Overseas War secretary in New York, read that he had passed away and decided to always wear a red poppy in remembrance. Later the American Legion adopted the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of our veterans.
Featured in:
No Place Like Home 6/26/20
Wolrd Landscape Lovers of Art 6/24/20
Travel Art 6/19/20
Images that Excite You 6/17/20
Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer 6/16/20
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June 15th, 2020
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Tatiana Travelways
Congratulations - Your beautiful artwork has been featured in the "Travel Art" gallery at Fine Art America! For further promotion, you can post it to the specific Travel Destinations galleries, our Facebook group and our Pinterest board - All the links are provided on our group's homepage.
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"