February 16, 2014, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Frank Nicolet Lucien poster pays homage to poem “In Flanders Fields” In the spring of 1915, John McCrae, a young Canadian surgeon, conducted a burial service for a friend, killed by German artillery during the Second Battle of Ypres, in the First World War. Inspired by the friend’s death, McCrae composed a poem, which he discarded, believing it to be no good. An… read more