Place | North & Central America: Canada |
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Accession Number | ART24163 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Sheet: 36.2 cm x 56.2 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | watercolour, pen and ink heightened with white over pencil on paper |
Maker |
Warner, R Malcolm |
Place made | Canada: Nova Scotia |
Date made | 1944-10 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Night flying, Greenwood, Nova Scotia
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.