Shared Experience: Construction of a Runway at an Aerodrome
Alan Sorrell
Construction of a Runway at an Aerodrome
oil on canvas
66 x 187.9cm
IWM ART LD 5674
The scale, shape, and detail of Sorrell’s painting give some indication of the work required to construct the many runways required to defend Britain and to launch attacks on Germany. The runway dominates the landscape, slicing through and side-lining the old agricultural order. This is clearly the future, the run-down farmhouse part of the past.
Paintings
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Sali Herman - Paris liberated
Colin Colahan - Interior with flag
Grace Cossington Smith - A nursery-school for war workers' children
Elsie Hewland - In the Shelter
Edward Ardizzone - Wedding Reception At The Kit Cat Club, Apeldoorn, Holland
Molly Lamb Bobak - Flight from reason
Stella Bowen - Via Dolorosa, Ortona
Charles Comfort - Ordnance Depot
Harold Beament - Incendiaries in a suburb, 1941
Henry Carr - Bombed Houses, Caen, Normandy
Will Ogilvie - St Paul's 1941
Duncan Grant - The City: A fallen lift shaft
Graham Sutherland - A Camouflaged Runaway
Cedric Kennedy - Construction of a Runway at an Aerodrome
Alan Sorrell