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Night Flying at Hendon [unknown artist], lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA10708

From 1910 to 1968 Hendon airfield operated as an important centre for civil and military aviation.

Night Flying at Hendon. Lithograph, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum

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.

Bunk! Eduardo Paolozzi., RAF Museum

Excavating Tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1834

After selling numerous Home Front pictures to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, Cole was appointed an Official War Artist. For his first commission in 1943 he recorded the German Siege of Malta in its last months.

Excavating a tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum

Veteran Mechanic by Robert Austin, charcoal and pastel on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1903

From the Air Ministry allocation of works from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, 1947. Original accession number: LD607. On loan from the RAF Air Historical Branch (MOD).

Robert Austin pastel drawing of a veteran mechanic, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

A Group of Polish Pilots by Patrick Procktor, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05630

In 1964 Patrick Procktor was one of the 'New Generation' of exciting young artists, celebrated in the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s exhibition of that title. The exhibition also championed the work of his friend David Hockney, and Bridget Riley and Patrick Caulfield, among others. Although he was respected in the 1960s art scene, he did not follow dominant artworld trends, choosing conventional genres including portraiture and travel landscapes. Prockor, who was gay, mostly painted men.

A Group of Polish Pilots by Patrick Procktor, oil on canvas, The Estate of Patrick Procktor and the Redfern Gallery, London. / RAF Museum

Statue of Winged Victory From a Photograph by Robert Thomas Griffin, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05560

This drawing represents the Greek Hellenic sculpture, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, from Paris’ Louvre Museum, recovered from the Aegean Sea in 1863.

Robert Thomas Griffin graphite drawing of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, Artist's copyright expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Crucifixion by Gladys Hynes, oil on cardboard

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA04334

Gladys Hynes painted ‘Crucifixion’ in 1939 as one of several artistic statements against Britain’s declaration of war on Germany.

Gladys Hynes oil on cardboard painting of a pilot with his arms outstretched in the pose of a crucifixion on an aircraft, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset / RAF Museum

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.

Alfred Ballot-Beaupre French recruitment poster for the Armu00e9e de lu2019Air, Artist copyright expired / RAF Museum / 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

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.

Dame Laura Knight preparatory drawing for Take Off: Flight Sergeant Alexander Quadling, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum / Consult Collection Curator before use.