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Lord Beaverbrook by Oscar Nemon, painted plaster

Fine Art, In Storage, FA20052

Donated by the artist in 1981.

Sculpture bust of Lord Beaverbrook's head rendered with plaster and painted in terracotta colour., RAF Museum

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VII) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour and charcoal on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01170

This compositional study representing female balloon operators manoeuvering a barrage balloon is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). Months earlier, in 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

In this watercolour five women (WAAFs) haul on the lines of a barrage balloon above them; trees in the background, RAF Museum / Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VII) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour and charcoal on paper, 1942

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01171

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees, with female balloon operators below it, is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). In 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper | FA01171

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (V) by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01172

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Watercolour representing a barrage balloon by trees with figures - of WAAF balloon operators - below it., Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper, 1942

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (I) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04558

This small compositional study of four WAAFs holding the rope of a barrage balloon is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). Months earlier, in 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Graphite drawing of four WAAF barrage balloon operators pulling the line to tether the balloon, RAF Museum

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (IV) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01173

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). Further studies and the finished painting represent women manoeuvring and tethering a balloon in a landscape just beyond Coventry's city centre.

Watercolour of a barrage balloon, depicted from below with trees in background., Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (IV) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper, 1942

Pilota da Caccia iu Ispagna [Fighter Pilot in Spain] by Enrico Castello ('Chin'), pastel on paper

Fine Art, 1935, In Storage, FA01690

Purchased from Michael Parkin Fine Art, 1977.

Sketched head and shoulder portrait of a pilot in flying helmet with goggles resting on his head. Drawn on headed paper from the Ministero dell' Aeronautica., RAF Museum

In the Clouds by Enrico Castello ('Chin'), oil on hardboard

Fine Art, 1930s, In Storage, FA01692

Purchased from Michael Parkin Fine Art, 1977.

Thickly applied paint on hardboard. View from aircraft of starboard wing and engine, clouds below, RAF Museum

Pilota Fascista iu Spagna [Fascist Pilot in Spain] by Enrico Castello ('Chin'), pastel and varnish on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01420

Purchased from Michael Parkin Fine Art, 1977.

Sketchy drawing of a pilot in flying kit with arm raised in Fascist salute. Aircraft in background., RAF Museum

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

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00986

In 1916 Italian Futurist painter Enrico Castello, otherwise known as 'Chin', represented this vibrant, abstract representation of flight, inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot in the First World War. Celebrating the dynamism of speed and technology, he made this painting two years before the end of the war when the Futurist movement - founded by poet Filippo Marinetti in 1909 - underwent a revival known as the Second Futurism.

Square-shaped Italian Futurist painting representing flight in an abstract way. Three swallow-like aircraft forms moving from top left to bottom right of composition. Swirling spiral shapes in sky, RAF Museum