Children’s Art from the Spanish Civil War
This exhibit highlights the artwork created by a group of children who, over half a century ago, unwittingly found their lives uprooted by the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
The images reproduced in this virtual exhibit are from the Alexander Albert MacLeod fonds (F 126) and were drawn by Spanish children evacuated to colonias infantiles between 1936 and 1939.
The drawings have survived intact for over half a century and now re-appear as fresh as when they were first drawn. They depict the children's experience with warfare and evacuation and are just a few of the thousands created in perhaps the first instance of organized art therapy.
- Heritage
- Toronto
- Nov 1, 2012 – Nov 30, 2012
Venue
Online exhibit