Night flying, Greenwood, Nova Scotia Accession Number: ART24163

Description

Depicts members of the 8th Operational Training Unit undertaking night flying training exercises with the co-operation of searchlights operated by RAAF personnel. This was part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.

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Accession Number
ART24163
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour, pen and ink heightened with white over pencil on paper
Measurement
Sheet: 36.2 cm x 56.2 cm
Medium
watercolour, pen and ink heightened with white over pencil on paper
Date Made
1944-10
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired 1946
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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