Made in 1917

Robert Henri
Pepita
1917
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Frank Brangwyn
Freedom of the Seas
(series, The Great War - Britain's Efforts and Ideals)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Arthur E. Becher
At last Karl cornered Hedwig
and demanded Speech
1917
drawing
(print study for magazine illustration)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Ethel Gabain
A Munition Worker
1917
lithograph
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Archibald Standish Hartrick
On Munitions - Drilling a Casting
(series, Women's Work)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Archibald Standish Hartrick
In the Towns - Bus Conductress
(series, Women's Work)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Archibald Standish Hartrick
On the Land - Ploughing
(series, Women's Work)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Archibald Standish Hartrick
On the Railways - Engine and Carriage Cleaners
(series, Women's Work)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Alexander Archipenko
Figure
1917
gouache on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Frederick Landseer Griggs
St Botolph's Bridge
1917
etching
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Christopher Nevinson
Acetylene Welders
(series, The Great War)
1917
lithograph
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Christopher Nevinson
Assembling Parts
(series, The Great War)
1917
lithograph
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Christopher Nevinson
Making the Engine
(series, The Great War)
1917
lithograph
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Christopher Nevinson
Survivors at Arras
1917
drypoint
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Félix Vallotton
Street in Dax
1917
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Norman Lindsay
Today the German Monster threatens the
World with Bloodshed, Slavery and Death
1917
lithograph
(proof of poster before lettering)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from Canzone

Drift, Autumn, drift; fall, colours, where you will:
Bald melancholia minces through the world.
Regret, cold oceans, the lymphatic will
Caught in reflection on the right to will:
While violent dogs excite their dying day
To bacchic fury; snarl, though, as they will,
Their teeth are not a triumph for the will
But utter hesitation. What we love
Ourselves for is our power not to love,
To shrink to nothing or explode at will,
To ruin and remember that we know
What ruins and hyaenas cannot know. 

If in this dark now I less often know
That spiral staircase where the haunted will
Hunts for its stolen luggage, who should know
Better than you, beloved, how I know
What gives security to any world,
Or in whose mirror I begin to know
The chaos of the heart as merchants know
Their coins and cities, genius its own day?
For through our lively traffic all the day,
In my own person I am forced to know
How much must be forgotten out of love,
How much must be forgiven, even love.

– W.H. Auden (1942)