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A.C.1 J.D.S Gordonu, RAF Halton by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, 1943, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1678

600,000 African servicemen supported the Allies in the Second World War.

A.C.1 J.D.S Gordonu, RAF Halton by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Eden Hotel, Berlin by Julius Stafford-Baker, graphite and watercolour on paper

Fine Art, 1945, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1809

During Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918-1933), Berlin’s elegant Eden Hotel was a hub for artists, writers and actors, but later became a meeting place for Nazi party officials. In November 1943 the hotel was destroyed in RAF Bomber Command’s devastating Battle of Berlin campaign.

Eden Hotel, Berlin by Julius Stafford-Baker, graphite and watercolour on paper, Crown Copyright (expired) / RAF Museum

The Last of the Few: John Hemingway by Alistair Morrison, digital photograph, inkjet-printed onto Hahnemuhle paper

Fine Art, 2023, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, X008-9477

Alistair Morrison photographed Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC AE (17 July 1919 - 17 March 2025) in 2023, at age 104, honouring him as the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot.

The Last of the Few: John Hemingway by Alistair Morrison, digital photograph, inkjet-printed onto Hahnemuhle paper, 2024. In this picture the then 104-year-old veteran, Hemingway, is seated in a large green chair, wearing his RAF uniform and medals, adjacent to a table upon which black and white photographs of his Second World War service sit, together with his open log book. He confronts the viewer with a sharp, intense gaze., RAF Museum

The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00991

A decade after his musical explorations with singer Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads, painter Humphrey Ocean was commissioned by the RAF Museum to represent the English Electric Lightning F6 aircraft at RAF Binbrook just before its withdrawal from service.

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WRAF Technician Servicing a Helicopter at Shawbury by Boyd & Evans, crayon on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00495

Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans work inter-dependently as an artistic partnership, at times drawing on the same leaves of paper to realise a shared vision. Photography is central to their practice. In the studio, when away from the subject, they based their drawings on photographs, and today photography is their main medium.

WRAF Technician Servicing A helicopter at Shawbury by Leslie Evans and Fionnuala Boyd, pencil crayon on paper, Boyd & Evans / RAF Museum

Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05592

Two years after the RAF Museum opened to visitors, it commissioned Bryan Organ, known for his depictions of famous people, to paint a ‘portrait’ of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier aircraft. Several years later, he also drew the Museum’s founding Director, Dr John Tanner.

Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas, Bryan Organ and the Redfern Gallery / RAF Museum

Will Man Outgrow the Earth? (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05372

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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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.

Cyril Power linocut print of a First World War dog fight, RAF Museum

Fighter Affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane by Walter Thomas Monnington, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1755

This painting represents a Fighter Affiliation exercise in which the crew of a Halifax bomber were trained to out-manoeuvre a naturally faster and more agile Hurricane fighter. The exercise was designed to emulate the real-life situations faced by bomber crew pursued by enemy fighters.

Fighter affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane. Walter T. Monnington. Oil on canvas, © RAF Museum

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.

Sybil Andrews painting of an Air Sea Rescue boat, ready for launch, Glenbow Museum of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. / RAF Museum