page_title: Alex Colville
section_title: Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Colville / Notable works / Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland
context_page_description: David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS was a Canadian painter.
context_section_description: Trained as an infantry officer, he did a painting when World War II ended. Based upon numerous drawings, it was called Infantry and is now in the Canadian War Museum. It represents a platoon of Canadian soldiers spread out and marching along both sides of a road. Colville believed it conveyed his perception of war, as both heroism and enduring persistence among nature's elements and constant danger. The face of the first man is actually a portrait of the artist's father.
caption: Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland
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