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Plane Graveyard by John Armstrong, tempera on board

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00005

In the Second World War, painter John Armstrong was commissioned to represent scenes of ‘Debris and Demolition’. Besides painting bombed houses, from 1941–1942 he turned to depicting crashed German aircraft.

John Armstrong tempera painting of an aircraft dump, The Estate of John Armstrong. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02819

This is one of a number of watercolours Paul Nash produced when commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee as the Air Ministry’s Official War Artist from March to December 1940.

Halifax Attack by Paul Nash, watercolour and chalk on paper, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum

Composition: Balloon Abstract by John Armstrong, tempera on board

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00004

Purchased from the Parkin Gallery, 1978.

Composition: Balloon Abstract by John Armstrong, tempera on wood, circa 1942 - sphere delineated by red contours, surrounded by three elipses with red shadows and a receding structure on left., The artist's estate / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Icarus by John Armstrong, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00262

This is one of many semi-abstract works on the Greek mythological theme of Icarus which British Surrealist John Armstrong made between 1939 and 1968, spanning the Second World War to the Cold War.

Icarus by John Armstrong, 1968, oil on canvas. Semi-abstract Icarus figure: orb 'globe head' on a pole 'torso' enveloped by a cloak of grey wings with a haloed pale yellow shadow above, on a brown mound with deeper yellow background, The artist's estate / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

Icarus by John Armstrong, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00264

This is one of over 30 semi-abstract works on the Greek mythological theme of Icarus which British Surrealist John Armstrong made between 1939 and 1968, spanning the Second World War to the Cold War.

Icarus by John Armstrong, oil on canvas, 1959. Semi-abstract composition: a faceted globe on a pole with folded back feathered 'wings' either side, seen from below, with a blue cloud behind the figure, The artist's estate / Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

St Paul's by Olga Lehmann, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X006-0175

This ink drawing is one of several by Olga Lehmann in the collection that document scenes of shelter and air raid damage during the London Blitz (1940–1941).

Olga Lehmann ink drawing of St Paul's Cathedral from the West Towers with surrounding Blitz ruins, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Soho Palace Theatre by Olga Lehmann, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X006-0132

This ink drawing is one of several by Olga Lehmann in the collection that document scenes of shelter and bomb damage during the London Blitz (1940–1941).

Soho Palace Theatre by Olga Lehmann, ink on paper, The artist's estate / RAF Museum / 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

Studies for 'Take Off': Pilot (recto); Navigator's Map and Equipment (verso) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01181

Knight made these charcoal studies for her painting 'Take Off' (1943, Imperial War Museums), which represents a Stirling bomber crew preparing for flight. Based at RAF Mildenhall with No. 15 Squadron, Knight, who did not accompany the crew in flight, posed the men as if they were about to embark on a raid over Germany.

Studies for 'Take Off': Pilot (recto); Navigator's Map and Equipment (verso) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal on paper, 1943. On the verso is a study of the flight navigator's map, pencils and navigation computer., The artist's estate, Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

An Officer from South Australia, 297: Sqn Ldr D.H. Smith by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00922

Donald Hamilton Smith (1915-1999) enlisted into the Royal Australian Air (RAAF) Citizens Air Force in August 1940 after the Battle of France.

Bust length colour chalk portrait of an Australian officer, frontally posed, in RAAF No. 1 Dress without cap. Small associative landscape drawing of Southern Australia in upper right corner., RAF Museum