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St. John Ambulance Brigade at Work in a London Underground Station by Doris Zinkeisen, watercolour and gouache on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA01160
This work represents one of the many first-aid posts established in London Underground shelters during the Second World War. It shows Civil Defence workers’ combined duties of medical and Air Raid Precautions support.
Filter Room by Elva Blacker, watercolour on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA04235
This scene is contrived from numerous portrait studies of RAF personnel. They are represented busy at work in the Filter Room at RAF Biggin Hill, a station that played a key role in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Hampdens (from Aerial Creatures) by Paul Nash, graphite and watercolour on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1757
This (now discoloured) study of Hampden bombers ascending from an airfield is one of 22 ‘Aerial Creatures’ watercolours Paul Nash made for his Official War Artist commission with the Air Ministry.
Picketed Aircraft by Graham Sutherland, gouache on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1890
Better known for his grotesque and surreal visions of bomb damage, Graham Sutherland had also made gouache paintings of bomber aircraft early in the Second World War. Three were purchased by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC).
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).
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.
It Happened to Us! by Carel Weight, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00793
After writing to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) in December 1939, asking to become an Official War Artist, Carel Weight received a commission to represent ‘bombing in a suburban district with people still going about their daily affairs’.
View of the Blitz by Mary Viola Paterson, etching
Fine Art, In Storage, FA03406
This etching is an original impression, printed and signed by 'Viola Paterson'. Later impressions, or ‘re-strikes’, were posthumously printed in 1983 by Yvonne Drewry in a folio edition of 150.
The Five Pound Piano - Firemen at Bethnal Green Fire Station, London Blitz by Enid Dreyfus, writing ink on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA02107
Enid Dreyfus (née Abrahams - her name at the time of making this work) joined the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) in 1939, working as a driver in Hampstead and later Bethnal Green. She sometimes sketched during her shifts. This drawing shows firemen on their break attempting to repair a piano for entertainment.
Sunderland Flying Boat in Hangar by John Nash, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1781
John Nash represented this Sunderland flying boat when he was commissioned through the War Artists' Advisory Committee to paint Admiralty subjects in the Second World War, as an Official War Artist.
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