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This Blitz scene is one of several drawings Adrian Hill made of Second World War subjects, and this example might have formed part of a sequence of his ink drawings in the RAF Museum collection. Hill had served in the First World War and was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to produce Western Front drawings. In 1940, during the Second World War, he made watercolours of the unspoilt British landscape for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, in anticipation of a German invasion. From this time, he also pioneered the discipline of ‘art therapy’, assisting convalescent Armed Services personnel whom he would encourage to draw, sometimes from images of war – a possible context for this drawing.

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

London

Title

Direct Hit

Date

1940

Medium

ink on paper

Accession number

FA01538

Work type

Drawing

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Grahame Park Way, London, Greater London NW9 5LL England

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Artist or maker

Adrian Keith Graham Hill

1895–1977

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