Place | North & Central America: Canada |
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Accession Number | ART23087 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Sheet: 28.8 cm x 36 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | watercolour with pen and ink over brown crayon |
Maker |
Warner, R Malcolm |
Place made | Canada: Manitoba |
Date made | January 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Winter morning, Gimli
Snow covered roads, bare trees and fuel car siding at No.18 Service Flying Training School are typical of many Canadian Air Stations under wintry conditions. Royal Australian Air Force trainees under the Empire Air Training Scheme trained at this and similar Stations, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. 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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