Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le port d'Halifax 1918 by Anabelle Kienle Ponka craft All brilliance this black ink

All brilliance this black ink divines…

won the Ann Connor Brimer Award

Screenplay: Sherry White

and Blues and Bliss (2008)—and a novel

for one bear

Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le port d'Halifax 1918 by Anabelle Kienle Ponka craft All brilliance this black inkTwo wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion. A year after the city was devastated by the Halifax Explosion, Harold Gilman (British, 18761919) and Arthur Lismer (Canadian, 18851969) were working in Halifax as war artists. Both commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to record the war activity on the home front, the two men struck up a friendship