Description
A Mosquito plane takes off on an operational training flight from No. 8 Operational Training Unit, Greenwood, Nova Scotia. Royal Australian Air Force trainees under the Empire Air Training Scheme are training in this Unit. 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
ART21984
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour on paper
Measurement
Overall: 35.6 x 50.8 cm
Medium
watercolour on paper
Credit Line
Acquired under official war art scheme 1944
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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