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Flight Lieutenant John Colin Mungo-Park DFC by Eric Kennington, pastel on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1704

This pastel portrait is one of many made by Eric Kennington during his two-year full-time Official War Artist commission with the Air Ministry through the War Artists' Advisory Committee. A renowned portraitist, he was tasked with portraying high-ranking men in the RAF.

Eric Kennington pastel portrait of John Colin Mungo Park, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Air Raid Damage Opposite Selfridges by Olga Lehmann, watercolour, gouache and ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02105

This illustration is one of several by Olga Lehmann in the Museum’s collection that document Civil Defence activities during the London Blitz (1940–1941).

Air Raid Damage Opposite Selfridges by Olga Lehmann, watercolour, gouache and ink on paper, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / 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

Squadron Leader Reginald Sawrey-Cookson DFC, DSO by Eric Kennington, pastel on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1718

This pastel portrait is one of many made by Eric Kennington during his two-year full-time Official War Artist commission with the Air Ministry through the War Artists' Advisory Committee. A renowned portraitist, he was tasked with portraying high-ranking men in the RAF.

Squadron Leader Reginald Sawrey-Cookson DFC, DSO by Eric Kennington, pastel on paper, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Communications Room by Elva Blacker, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04234

This watercolour shows personnel at work in the Communications Room at RAF Biggin Hill, a station that played a key role in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Elva Blacker watercolour of an RAF communications room, © Estate of Elva Blacker, 2020 / RAF Museum

Pegu Airstrip: Afternoon Storm by Thomas Hennell, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1859

After Eric Ravilious’ death, Hennell, an esteemed watercolourist, replaced him in an Official War Artist's Admiralty assignment to Iceland. Then from May 1945 he undertook a six-month commission with the Air Ministry in India and Burma (now Myanmar), sending watercolours to London ‘via the hand of a squadron leader’.

Pegu Airstrip: Afternoon Storm by Thomas Hennell, graphite and watercolour on paper, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VIII) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01169

This compositional study is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Dame Laura Knight watercolour and graphite study for 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' painting, of WAAFs operating a barrage balloon, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Veteran Mechanic by Robert Austin, charcoal and pastel on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1903

From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD607. On loan from the RAF Air Historical Branch (MOD).

Robert Austin pastel drawing of a veteran mechanic, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

The Long March by Pamela Taylor, bronze and marble

Fine Art, London, Hangar Five, X003-2106

This memorial to commemorate the Long March was commissioned by the RAF Ex-Prisoners of War Association and unveiled in May 2003. Sculptor Pamela Taylor (1929-2014) based the figure of the airman on a wartime sketch by Ley Kenyon, artist and prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III who survived the march ('Marching Prisoners of War in Greatcoats', FA01916, RAF Museum collection).

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An Officer from British Columbia, Canada, 271: Cpl Johnny J. Maines by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00923

Edith Honor Earl made this portrait drawing for her exhibition 'Warriors of the Empire' with the Royal Empire Society, which opened in London’s Grosvenor House in December 1944. It is one of 22 portraits by her in the RAF Museum collection (besides others elsewhere) which celebrate the contributions of Service personnel from the British colonies and Commonwealth in the Second World War.

Bust length coloured chalk portrait of a Canadian Leading Aircraftsman, facing forward and right, wearing side cap. Small associative landscape drawing of British Columbia, Canada, in upper right corner., RAF Museum