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Oxford Circus: Peter Robinson by Anthony Gross, watercolour and ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00813

This drawing was made in September 1940, at the height of the London Blitz, when the Peter Robinson department store in Oxford Street suffered bomb damage.

Anthony Gross watercolour and ink drawing of the Peter Robinson department store during the Blitz, September 1940, © Anthony Gross, RA, CBE / RAF Museum

Steel Ladle by Graham Sutherland, gouache, ink, graphite and collaged paper on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X008-9485

Graham Sutherland was employed as a full-time Official War Artist, placed with the Ministry of Home Security to depict scenes of bomb damage, and then with the Ministry of Supply, to represent industrial production.

Molten steel being poured into a ladle from a furnace., The artist's estate / RAF Museum.

Evoluzioni Spiraliche di Aerei [Spiralling Evolutions of Aeroplanes] by Enrico Castello ('Chin'), oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00561

In 1918 Italian Futurist painter Enrico Castello, otherwise known as ‘Chin’, represented this combative vision after serving as a fighter pilot. That year, at the end of the war, poet Filippo Marinetti revived the Futurist art movement he had founded in Milan in 1909.

Enrico Castello ('Chin') oil painting of an Italian aircraft over a coastal landscape, RAF Museum

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.

RAF Morse School at Olympia, Blackpool by Charles Cundall, oil on canvas, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

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).

Spanish Refugees Being Fitted with Gasmasks by Olga Lehmann, ink on paper, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

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.

The Bastard Word Studies by Fiona Banner, graphite on paper, 2006-7., Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press / RAF Museum

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).

Study for 'Take Off': Interior of a Stirling Bomber with Four Crew Members by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

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.

Coloured chalk portrait of Pilot Officer Snowden from Aukland, New Zealand, RAF Museum

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.

Bust length colour chalk portrait of an airman from Zanzibar (now Tanzania), left profile, wearing RAF Service Dress with shoulder badge and Zanzibar shoulder title, but no cap. Small associative landscape drawing of Zanzibar in lower left corner., RAF Museum

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).

Greenham Common by Peter Kennard, photomontage - a photograph of signage to RAF Greenham Common mounted onto card and embellished with graphite to suggest a trail of metallic, radioactive dust. Upper and lower bands of black gouache paint frame the apocalypic image of the grounds, portending death and uncontrollable fallout., RAF Museum