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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

Study for the Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00917

‘The project spanned two years, beginning in January 1987 after the Museum’s then Curator of Art, the late Tony Harold, got in touch. He had liked my painting Lord Volvo and His Estate (1982, Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and thought about how I might translate my treatment of the automobile and men into depicting RAF aircraft and crew.

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Study for ‘Take Off’: Flight Engineer by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01176

This preparatory study of Flight Sergeant Alexander Quadling, a Flight Engineer, is one of many Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums), in which she represented a Stirling bomber crew at RAF Mildenhall preparing for flight.

Study for 'Take Off': Flight Engineer by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper, 1943, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

I was a Rich Man's Plaything (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, screenprint and lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05394

While in the late-1940s austerity measures persisted in Britain, American commodities and advertising, by contrast, reflected the USA’s economic and cultural dominance. They also reflected America’s popular imagination inspired by the emerging jet and space age.

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Take-off (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, screenprint and lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05370

While in the late-1940s austerity measures persisted in Britain, American commodities and advertising, by contrast, reflected the USA’s economic and cultural dominance. They also reflected America’s popular imagination inspired by the emerging jet and space age.

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Walrus Amphibian Aircraft by Raymond McGrath, watercolour on canvas board

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1785

An amphibious biplane, the Walrus was used for RAF air-sea rescue missions to patrol British waters, the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal, to recover crew from downed aircraft.

Walrus amphibian aircraft. Raymond McGrath. Watercolour on paper., Crown copyright (expired) / RAF Museum

Damaged Propellers Arrive at a Maintenance Station by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1793

From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD5014.

Damaged Propellers Arrive at a Maintenance Station by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper, 1942, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Underground Bomb Store by David Bomberg, charcoal on paper.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1747

In April 1942, for his Official War Artist commission, David Bomberg spent a fortnight 90 feet underground in the vast bomb store of RAF Fauld, Burton-on-Trent, where he saw bombs being loaded on to racks, ready for use.

Underground Bomb Store by David Bomberg. Charcoal on paper., Crown copyright (expired).

Fired Out Engines by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1794

From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD1989.

Fired Out Engines by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, watercolour on paper, 1942-43, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

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.

CRW Nevinson abstract oil painting of a Taube aircraft being pursued, Copyright expired. / RAF Museum