Shared Experience: A Camouflaged Runaway

Art and War

• Introduction
• Battle
• Work
• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
• Home
• Artists

Kennedy was best known as a landscape painter, but he was also a pilot, and this painting combines both passions as he explores the complex patterns of the camouflaged buildings and their relationship to the landscape. (The painting was a break from the despondent monochrome images Kennedy was making at the time.) The nation might be at war, but around the airfield, country life, with all the values so closely associated with British identity, continued.

Paintings

• Back home
  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