#arthur lismer

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The Olympic with Returned Soldiers by Arthur Lismer, 1919. The painting depicts troopship SS Olympic, a sister ship of Titanic, in dazzle camouflage returning to Halifax with Canadian military personnel back from the First World War in 1917.

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Arthur Lismer

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Word List: Fly

beautiful words with "fly" for your next poem/story

Alderfly - any of numerous insects (order Megaloptera) of the genus Sialis or related genera having aquatic larvae that are used for bait

Catchfly - any of various plants (as of the genera Lychnis and Silene) of the pink family often with viscid stems

Damselfly - any of numerous odonate insects (suborder Zygoptera) distinguished from dragonflies by laterally projecting eyes and usually stalked wings folded above the body when at rest

Deerfly - any of numerous small horseflies (as of the genus Chrysops) that include important vectors of tularemia

Flowerfly - a syrphid fly (i.e., any of numerous active day-flying flies that constitute the family Syrphidae, frequent flowers and feed on nectar, vary greatly in form and coloration but generally have a spurious longitudinal vein near the middle of each wing, often mimic bees or wasps and have the abdomen banded with yellow, and produce larvae which feed on decaying organic matter or are predaceous on plant lice)

Flybane - any of several plants considered to be destructive to houseflies (as a catchfly or the fly agaric)

Flybridge - an open deck on a cabin cruiser located above the bridge on the cabin roof and usually having a duplicate set of navigating equipment

Flyflower - dutchman's-breeches

Flyleaf - one of the free endpapers of a book

Flypaper - paper coated with a sticky often poisonous substance for killing flies

Flyspeck - a speck made by fly excrement; something small and insignificant

Greenfly - aphid i.e., any of numerous very small soft-bodied homopterous insects (superfamily Aphidoidea) that suck the juices of plants

Medfly - Mediterranean fruit fly i.e., a small widely distributed yellowish-brown dipteran fly (Ceratitis capitata) with a banded abdomen whose larva lives and feeds in ripening fruit

Sandfly - any of various small biting dipteran flies (especially genus Phlebotomus of the family Psychodidae)

Whitefly - any of numerous small homopterous insects (family Aleyrodidae) that are injurious plant pests

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

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The Art Room, Grip Limited, Toronto, ca. 1911–12.

Seated fourth from the left, Tom Thomson, with William Broadhead, Arthur Lismer, and F.H. Varley standing behind. J.E.H. MacDonald is seated next to the right across the aisle.

David Wilson, Tom Thomson. Life & Work (Art Canada Institutite)

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Unveiling the Wilderness: A Glimpse into the Group of Seven's Iconic Canadian Landscapes (Part 1)

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Arthur Lismer (Canadian, 1885-1969)

Lily Pond, Georgian Bay, 1948

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Daily Painting

Arthur Lismer STREAMSIDE BROOK (1916)

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Arthur Lismer

Olympic with Returned Soldiers

1919