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RAF Morse School at Olympia, Blackpool by Charles Cundall, oil on canvas
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1803
Cundall produced a series of panoramic views of Admiralty and Air Ministry subjects for his Official War Artist commissions in the Second World War. In this work a large cohort of RAF wireless operators undergo initial training to decipher Morse Code.
Spanish Refugees Being Fitted with Gasmasks by Olga Lehmann, ink on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA01545
This ink drawing is one of several by Lehmann in the collection that document scenes of shelter and bomb damage during the London Blitz (1940–1941).
Study for 'Take Off': Interior of a Stirling Bomber with Four Crew Members by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA01178
This loose compositional drawing represents a Bomber Command crew in a Stirling cockpit. It is one of many preparatory studies, drawn on large sheets of paper, which Dame Laura Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums).
An Officer from North Auckland, New Zealand, 284: P/O Snowden by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00926
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.
Greenham Common by Peter Kennard, photomontage: silver gelatin print with graphite and gouache on card
Fine Art, X008-9484
Artist and activist Peter Kennard made this photomontage in support of the CND movement protest against the use of RAF Greenham Common as a nuclear weapons base for the United States Air Force (between 1980-1991).
The Bastard Word Studies by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, graphite on Fabriano paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, X008-7568
Fiona Banner's art explores the relationship between language and conflict. Her suite of drawings, The Bastard Word Studies, signifies how the failure of language fuels war.
Noon by Emile Antoine Verpilleux, oil on canvas
Fine Art, London, Hangar Two, X002-9669
Emile Verpilleux was a British artist who served as a ground wireless officer in the RAF during the First World War. 'Noon' is one of a series of pictures he painted after the War showing the work of the RAF in the air and on the ground.
Little Ships by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00994
This is one of seven paintings Andrews made about boat building, which she developed after the war from wartime sketches taken while working for the British Power Boat Company in Hythe, Southampton, which built high-speed launch craft for RAF air sea rescue missions.
An Airman from Zanzibar, 322: I. Barwani by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00929
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.
ARP Warden by Sydney Kendrick, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00509
This portrait of a male Air Raid Precautions warden is an untypical subject of the painter Sydney Kendrick, better known for his portraits of society figures than for representing ordinary people in everyday situations.
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