Spray painting an RAAF Airspeed Oxford
- Title
- Spray painting an RAAF Airspeed Oxford
- Description
- Ragless depicts an RAAF Airspeed Oxford being spray painted deep red, aluminium and bright yellow by Ansett Airways Ltd staff. 'With all three colours being applied at once/ and the job done out of doors, this made a most/ colourfull [sic] subject/' April 1945 (Ragless quote). Ragless was an official war artist commissioned from April 1945 to Dec 1945 and was re-engaged in May 1946 to finish work.
- Creator
- Ragless, Max
- Subject
- Aircraft maintenance
- Subject
- Airspeed Oxford
- Subject
- Camouflage and concealment
- Subject
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Subject
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Subject
- Australia: Victoria
- Subject
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Essendon
- Image number
- ART23399
- Managed by
- Item held by the Australian War Memorial
- Date or place
- Australia: Victoria
- Date or place
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Essendon
- Rights
- You do not have to seek permission to use the Memorial's images for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. You must seek permission to use the Memorial's images for commercial publication.
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