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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.

No.19 Air Flight Over Wytschaete by Paul Nash, Paul Nash. watercolour, gouache and chalks on paper, 1917., Copyright expired.

Producing Model Buildings in the Camouflage Workshop, Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment by Anne Newland, ink on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01384

During the Second World War mural painter Anne Newland worked for the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment in the Midlands. Its aim was to conceal major British buildings from enemy sight, preventing their destruction from air raids.

Anne Newland ink drawing of artists and designers making building models in the Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment, Leamington Spa, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Aircraft Fuselage and Wind Tunnel by Barbara Jones, watercolour and graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA02454

This is one of three watercolours Barbara Jones painted of wind tunnel testing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

Barbara Jones watercolour of a Fairey Battle Mk1 aircraft being modified with a Napier Sabre engine for wind tunnel testing, © The Estate of Barbara Jones. / RAF Museum

Kamikaze Planes Crashing on the Deck of HMS Formidable in Japanese Waters, 1945, by Leonard Rosoman, watercolour and wax crayon on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05610

Prior to his appointment as an Official War Artist, Rosoman had worked for the National Fire Service in London during the Blitz. As a ‘fireman artist’ he developed an artistic language that captured the immediacy and drama of events, with bright contrasting colours and expressive painterly markings.

Leonard Rosoman watercolour and crayon drawing of a Kamikaze crash on the desk of HMS Formidable in 1945, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

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’.

Pegu Airstrip: Afternoon Storm by Thomas Hennell, graphite and watercolour on paper, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Going to be Decorated: Bomber Command by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1885

In this work, Bomber Command airmen in a hut celebrate news of their awards for distinguished service. After an evening of drinking, they have left behind an empty decanter and glasses, and have playfully climbed to the rafters of the building.

Going to be Decorated: Bomber Command by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

The Winged Life (book cover design) by John Minton, watercolour, gouache and ink on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00565

Minton designed this cover for a biography of the pioneering French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared in 1944 aboard a reconnaissance flight from Corsica.

John Minton book cover illustration for 'The Winged Life', depicting Antoine de Saint-Exupu00e9ry adjacent to an aircraft in flight, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

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

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00561

In 1918 Italian Futurist painter Enrico Castello, otherwise known as ‘Chin’, represented this combative vision after serving as a fighter pilot. That year, at the end of the war, poet Filippo Marinetti revived the Futurist art movement he had founded in Milan in 1909.

Enrico Castello ('Chin') oil painting of an Italian aircraft over a coastal landscape, RAF Museum

Spitfires on a Camouflaged Runway by Eric Ravilious, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1791

After his first assignment with the Admiralty, from February 1942 Official War Artist Eric Ravilious worked on Air Ministry subjects.

Spitfires on a Camouflaged Runway by Eric Ravilious, watercolour on paper, Crown copyright: expired RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Study for Bristol Aeroplane Company, Corsham by Olga Lehmann, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, X008-7550

A versatile painter, illustrator and designer, Olga Lehmann was one of few wartime artists who received steady commissions outside of the Official War Artists’ scheme.

Study for BAC Underground Factory, Corsham by Olga Lehmann, The artist's estate