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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.
Study of Camouflage School Workshop, Ministry of Home Security Camouflage Establishment by Anne Newland, ink on paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA01387
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.
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.
Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942 by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00985
Famed for his First World War works, in 1940 Nash was invited again to become an Official War Artist for the revived scheme chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark. When Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned him to the Air Ministry Nash made propagandist watercolours of RAF and crashed Luftwaffe aircraft.
Jeune Francais, vous pouvez accomplir votre service militaire legal comme pilote d'avions by Alfred Ballot-Beaupré, lithograph
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA10242
Translation: ‘As a young Frenchman, you can complete your statutory military service as an aircraft pilot’'. This is a recruitment poster for the Armée de l’Air, the air force of the French Army.
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.
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.
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