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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 Allman ‘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

Aircraft Fuselage and Wind Tunnel by Barbara Jones, watercolour and graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA02454

This is one of three watercolours Barbara Jones painted of wind tunnel testing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

Barbara Jones watercolour of a Fairey Battle Mk1 aircraft being modified with a Napier Sabre engine for wind tunnel testing, © The Estate of Barbara Jones. / RAF Museum

Fun Helped Them Fight (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05373

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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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

Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1883

Ethel Gabain produced two Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) subjects for her Official War Artist commission about ‘women doing men’s work in wartime’. In this work she represents female pilots departing from Hatfield aerodrome in a Tiger Moth.

Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

A New Brand of Brilliance (from 'Bunk' portfolio) by Eduardo Paolozzi, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05399

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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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