Soldiersâ Lives Depicted: Paintings and Drawings by âUnofficial Artistsâ in the Collection of the Canadian War Museum
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian War Museumâs collection of Second World War art, collectively entitled âThe Canadian War Records,â is primarily made up of artwork officially commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada on behalf of the Canadian Government. Through this scheme 33 Official war artists were given the sponsorship and protection of the three branches of the Armed Forces. The artistsâ objective was to illustrate Canadaâs role in the Second World War. This made it possible for them to travel around Canada to record activities at training bases and also to be sent overseas to record the military action in various parts of the United Kingdom and war-torn Europe. Many of Canadaâs official artists found themselves close to the thick of the battle, whether on land, on the seas or in the air.\nThere were also, however, many artists among the ranks of enlisted men. These âunofficialâ artists painted, sketched, and drew for their own pleasure, depicting what they liked as they liked without the thought that their works were destined for a Canadian heritage art collection. They drew and painted to hone their artistic skills, to record their experiences, to fill leisure time, and in the case of many, as a means of therapy, helpful in unfamiliar situations disconnected from everyday life. In recent years, many of these works have been donated by the artists and their families to the Canadian War Art Collection at the Canadian War Museum. The informality of the subject matter presents an invaluable background to the official paintings of the war.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".