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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.
Speed, Moment of Force by Paul Sayers, oil on canvas
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA02073
This is one of twelve paintings Sayers made to commemorate the Battle of Britain, which he first exhibited at London’s Barbican Centre before touring them to the RAF Museum in 1990.
Taube Pursued by Commander Samson by C.R.W. Nevinson, oil on canvas
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00842
In 1915, after volunteering as an ambulance driver in Dunkirk, Nevinson painted this imagined vision of Air Commodore Samson’s command. Samson’s Royal Naval Air Squadron had aggressively patrolled the French city against German reconnaissance.
From a Paris Plane by C.R.W. Nevinson, lithograph
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00564
From a Paris Plane was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, London in October 1930 (cat. no. 29) and published as an edition of 25.
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.
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.
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.
Air Sea Rescue Launch by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00993
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.
Hull Shop by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00999
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.
Air Raid by Cyril Power, linocut
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00972
Power’s linocut print of a biplane ‘dog fight’ recalls his First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps, when he supervised aircraft repairs at Lympne aerodrome, Kent. He developed the print in four lino-block colour separations of red, light blue, grey and dark blue from a wartime sketch.
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