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Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1883
Ethel Gabain produced two Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) subjects for her Official War Artist commission about ‘women doing men’s work in wartime’. In this work she represents female pilots departing from Hatfield aerodrome in a Tiger Moth.
No. 19 Air Flight over Wytschaete by Paul Nash, watercolour, gouache and chalk on paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00848
From February 1917, Nash served with the Hampshire Regiment in the trenches of Flanders, on the Western Front. This is one of 50 drawings he made of the Ypres Salient battlefields that November, when he returned to the Front after injury, now serving as an Official War Artist.
Walrus Amphibian Aircraft by Raymond McGrath, watercolour on canvas board
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1785
An amphibious biplane, the Walrus was used for RAF air-sea rescue missions to patrol British waters, the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal, to recover crew from downed aircraft.
Damaged Propellers Arrive at a Maintenance Station by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1793
From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD5014.
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’.
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