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Taube Pursued by Commander Samson by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00842

In 1915, after volunteering as an ambulance driver in Dunkirk, Nevinson painted this imagined vision of Air Commodore Samson’s command. Samson’s Royal Naval Air Squadron had aggressively patrolled the French city against German reconnaissance.

CRW Nevinson abstract oil painting of a Taube aircraft being pursued, Copyright expired. / RAF Museum

Swooping Down on a Taube (from The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals - Building Aircraft) by C.R.W. Nevinson, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00844

Nevinson made this print in 1917 as part of an ambitious multi-artist lithographic project known as 'The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals' - a propagandist publishing scheme commissioned by the government’s Department of Information. For the 'Efforts' side of the series, nine artists each made six prints on assigned themes. Nevinson's theme was Building Aircraft, while others included Making Soldiers, Making Sailors (curiously there was no ‘Making Airmen’), Making Guns, and Building Ships. The aim of the series was to persuade people to contribute to the war effort, as serving personnel in the Armed Forces, factory workers or fabricators.

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