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De-icing Aircraft A3 print
Eric Ravilious was employed as an official war artist in 1940. He served first with the Admiralty, but in February 1942 was transferred to the Royal Air Force. This watercolour arose from a period stationed at RAF Clifton near York. The base was used partly for aircraft maintenance and was home to various aircraft.
In the drawingâs foreground there is the tail of a Bristol Blenheim light bomber and in the distance a De Havilland Dominie, from which snow-swept ground crew attempt to scrape ice. Raviliousâs characteristically strong sense of pattern and design is clearly evident in this work, the artist sharply contrasting the grounded aircraftâs camouflage with the blank whiteness of the fallen snow.
1942
42cm x 29.7cm (A3)
© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1856)
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