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Entering the Ballonet by Robert Austin, charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1874

This drawing of women testing a balloon for leakage is one of several large-scale exhibition drawings by Robert Austin, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee with RAF Balloon Command.

Robert Austin drawing of WAAFs in Balloon Command with a barrage balloon, one of whom enters the ballonet, © RAF Museum / 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.

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

Making Up Log Books by Denis Barnham, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01016

Inscribed: 'Making up log books. Boulsmer. 29/11/44.'

Making Up Log Books: figure in armchair leans forward, turning page of a log book. Seated figures behind write in log books., The artist's estate / RAF Museum

MGBs [Motor Gun Boats] by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00998

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.

Sybil Andrews oil painting of construction of motor gun boats at the British Power Boat Company, Hythe, Glenbow Museum and Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. / RAF Museum

Boat Yard by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00995

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.

Sybil Andrews oil painting of Air Sea Rescue boat building at the British Power Boat Company, Hythe, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset

Red Lead by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00996

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.

Sybil Andrews oil painting of Air Sea Rescue boat construction at the British Power Boat Company, Hythe, Kent, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset / RAF Museum

Artwork for Programme of the Royal Air Force Aerial Pageant Hendon

Fine Art, In Storage, FA11104

This lithographically-printed poster reproduces the design of an original watercolour painting featuring Vickers Vernon transport aircraft and a blown-up railway bridge in a Middle Eastern setting. The poster was used to advertise the 1923 RAF Hendon Pageant.

Poster showing biplane flying over a wrecked wooden bridge with a cloud of fire and smoke in the background, Jigsaw Design & Publishing © RAF Museum

Premonition by Walter Nessler, oil on wood

Fine Art, In Storage, FA05591

Walter Nessler painted ‘Premonition’, his most notable work, after fleeing Nazi Germany. He became preoccupied by the Nazi-Fascist bombing of the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War, memorialised in Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ (1937).

Premonition by Walter Nessler, oil on wood, The artist's estate / RAF Museum

Corner of an Airfield in Sussex, with two Spits coming in to Land by Denis Barnham, ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01010

Inscribed: '3/6/44. Corner of an Airfield in Sussex with 2 Spits coming in to land.'

Corner of an Airfield in Sussex, with two Spits Coming in to Land: timber frame structure with thatched roof, Mustang III on ground to the left. Two aircraft in distance on the left., The artist's estate / RAF Museum