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Entering the Ballonet by Robert Austin, charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1874

This drawing of women testing a balloon for leakage is one of several large-scale exhibition drawings by Robert Austin, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee with RAF Balloon Command.

Robert Austin drawing of WAAFs in Balloon Command with a barrage balloon, one of whom enters the ballonet, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00991

A decade after his musical explorations with singer Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads, painter Humphrey Ocean was commissioned by the RAF Museum to represent the English Electric Lightning F6 aircraft at RAF Binbrook just before its withdrawal from service.

The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas, RAF Museum and Humphrey Ocean

Studies of a Land Girl in a Gun Pit Overlooking an Aerodrome by Denis Barnham, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01015

Inscribed: '3/6/44 Studies of a Landgirl in a gun pit overlooking an aerodrome. Redhill 44.'

Studies of a Land Girl in a Gun Pit Overlooking an Aerodrome: seated female figure on the right looks back at the viewer. Three female figures to her left, two seated and one standing, look towards the aerodrome on the horizon behind, The artist's estate / RAF Museum

Coastal Defences I by Michael Ayrton, gouache on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01854

Michael Ayrton depicted this scene in January 1941, as one of a series of 'Coastal Defences' paintings. Aged 20 and at the beginning of his artistic career, he had yet to establish a reputation for himself and was not on the War Artists’ Advisory Committee’s (WAAC) list of names for consideration as an Official War Artist. In the hope of securing a commission, he speculatively showed his series to the Committee's Chair, Kenneth Clark, at the National Gallery, but was unsuccessful.

Gouache painting depicting barbed wire fence, oil drums with wood and corrugated metal beside a path., The artist's estate

Bristol Aeroplane Company, Corsham by Olga Lehmann, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01375

A versatile painter, illustrator and designer, Olga Lehmann was one of few wartime artists who received steady commissions outside of the Official War Artists’ scheme.

Bristol Aeroplane Company, Corsham by Olga Lehmann, oil on canvas, 1943, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / u00a9 Estate of Olga Lehman

Assembling Parts (from The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals - Building Aircraft) by C.R.W. Nevinson, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04045

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.

Assembling Parts by C.R.W. Nevinson, lithograph, 1917. Black and white, semi-abstract image of male and female factory workers in overalls assembling a First World War biplane., RAF Museum

Night Vigil by Anthony Gross, watercolour and ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00814

This scene represents a member of the Observer Corps keeping watch from a sandbag look-out post, while barrage balloons are positioned to divert enemy aircraft away from air raid targets.

Night Vigil by Anthony Gross, watercolour and ink on paper, © The Estate of Anthony Gross. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Raider on the Moor by Paul Nash, lithograph on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00292

This lithograph was published by the National Gallery after an original watercolour by Paul Nash from his series ‘Raiders’, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) in 1940

Lithograph after a watercolour, representing a crashed Heinkel He111 aircraft depicted from a starboard perspective, on English moorland, with blue hills in the distance, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

Royal Observer Corps, Rottingdean by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1900

As an Official War Artist, Roland Vivian Pitchforth undertook many commissions through the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War. This watercolour shows a Royal Observer Corps observation post. It was commissioned by the Admiralty as part of a series representing naval vessels and subjects related to maritime warfare around the British coastline.

Roland Vivian Pitchforth watercolour of Royal Observer Corps observers at an observation post in Rottingdean, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Mural Study (squared up) of the Camouflage Workshop, Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment (VIII) by Anne Newland, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01378

During the Second World War mural painter Anne Newland worked for the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment in the Midlands. Its aim was to conceal major British buildings from enemy sight, preventing their destruction from air raids.

Anne Newland watercolour mural study of the camouflage workshop, Ministry of Home Security, Leamington Spa, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / RAF Museum