FLANDERS FIELDS: 25 YEARS OF DEPICTING BRITISH TRENCH POETRY

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 intermingled with writings of 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 in a body of work that includes paintings, prints, and drawings.