Wings Parade course 100, Calgary

Place North & Central America: Canada, Alberta, Calgary
Accession Number ART23085
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 24.5 cm x 38.1 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink with watercolour over charcoal on paper
Maker Warner, R Malcolm
Place made Canada: Alberta
Date made 1944-08-25
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Wings Parade, Course 100, at No.3 Service Flying Training School, Calgary, Alberta. The School is operated under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and course 100, which was the first to occupy 28 weeks instead of the usual 20, contained 45 Royal Australian Air Force trainees out of a total of 50 students. 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.