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| Nicolas
Trudgian: Air Combat Legends Vol 2 by Nicolas Trudgian, Air Commodore Peter
Brothers. Spellmount Publishers. ISBN: 1862271763 |
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This
second volume of Air Combat legends by Nicolas Trudgian shows 50 aviation
paintings, most completed since the artist's first volume was published
in 1998. One of the world's most popular painters of military subjects,
Nick's fascinating narrative compliments this splendid collection of aviation
art. - Trudgian's clever interplay of light, shadow and colour, set in
boundless landscapes and fascinating skies, provide intensely exciting
snapshots of aerial combat not achievable with the camera. - The artist's
detailed narrative describes the background to each painting, his methods
of research, discussions with combat aircrews, and how these relate to
his finished canvases.
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| Hardcover
- 96 pages (September 2002) |
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| Robert
Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Vol II by Charles Walker, Robert Taylor (Illustrator).
David & Charles. David & Charles; ISBN: 0715314602 |
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Each
painting is reproduced in full colour and discussed in detail. The artist
explores the background to each piece and his methods of research, and
explains how he develops a painting from its initial concept to completion
on the canvas. His revealing comments are supported by a wealth of
colour detail of the paintings, and preliminary pencil sketches. There
are also some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of Robert's meetings
with some of the finest aviators in history, a number of whom have contributed
their own personal recollections to the book - including first-hand accounts
of the aircraft they flew in combat.
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| Paperback
- September 2002 |
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| Robert
Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Vol IV by Charles Walker, Robert Taylor (Illustrator).
David & Charles. David & Charles; ISBN: 0715310933 |
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Robert
Taylor's work draws on a rich painting tradition of detailed realism combined
with atmospheric composition. This book contains paintings of planes from
different nations and specific historical incidents, grouped in 24 chapters.
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| Hardcover
- 128 pages (September 2000) |
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| Aviation
Art by Mike Sharpe, Tim Laming, Michael Sharpe. Thunder Bay Press; ISBN:
1571451633 |
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This
volume is a magnificent gallery of artwork celebrating a century ofaviation,
from WWI to the present day. The pages evoke the thundering of a formation
of B-29 Superfortresses, the frenzied chaos of a dogfight, or the majesty
of the Space Shuttle. Includes over 150 color reproductions of canvases
by both known and unknown artists, rendered in a number of styles,
including many photo realistic paintings. Each work is accompanied by a
short narrative giving historical background, biographic details of the
artists, and other germane information. This book is both a treasury of
art and a historical record.
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| Hardcover
- 3 May, 1999 |
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| The
Glory of Flight: The Art of William S. Phillips by Edward Park, William
S. Phillips (Illustrator), Edwards Park, Stephen Coonts (Introduction).
The Greenwich Workshop Press; ISBN: 0867130229 |
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More
than 80 full-colour photos of artwork, plus sketches and drawings direct
from Phillps' personal sketch book. World War II vintage war birds engaging
in dogfights or limping home damaged. P-38s, B-17s, Spitfires, and P-51s
dominate this album of 80-plus colorplates, followed in number by the supersonic
fighters currently in service. Phillips often pictures them at flattering
angles as they pass over prominent landmarks, such as Crater Lake, the
cliffs of Dover, or the Grand Canyon, highlighted by the low-angle ruddiness
of sunsets.
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| Hardcover:
172 pages (May 1997) |
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| 50
Years of Aviation Art by Frank Wootton by Frank Wootton, Frank Wootton
(Illustrator), Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler GCB CBE DSO DFC AFC .
Vanwell Pub Ltd; ISBN: 1550680730 |
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The
collection of aircraft depicted in this book celebrates 50 years of painting
by Frank Wootton, who has work hanging in private and public collections
worldwide, including the Imperial War Museum in London and the National
Air and Space Museum in Washington. Wootton matured as a painter during
the frantic years of World War II, when he travelled the world as an official
war artist to the Royal Air Force. In 1944 he joined the Allied forces
advancing in Europe, through newly-liberated France and into Belgium, painting
the events and aircraft around him. Some months later he was moved to South-East
Asia, where he experienced the final stages of the war with Japan. There
he painted many works of life in the tropics - a world of sandstorms, intense
heat and monsoon rains. His subjects included the routines of daily life,
alongside images of pilots and their aircraft at war.
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| Hardcover
- January 1997 |
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| Robert
Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Vol III by Robert Taylor (Illustrator). David
& Charles. David & Charles; ISBN: 0715304917 |
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A
collection of 28 reproductions of Robert Taylor's aviation art, accompanied
by a commentary on each piece by the artist. Taylor reveals how he develops
each painting from its initial concept to completion on the canvas. His
comments are supported by preliminary pencil sketches.
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| Hardcover
- 128 pages (27 September, 1996) |
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| Gerald
Coulson: the Masterworks by John Blake, David Shepherd, Gerald Coulson
(Introduction). David & Charles; ISBN:0715398695 |
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Gerald
Coulson's first love was not art, but aircraft, and from an early age he
studied and drew them at every opportunity. His apprenticeship - in the
RAF, then as a civilian aircraft engineer and as a pilot - has stood him
in good stead in subsequent years, for he paints from an intimate knowledge
of the machines. More recently he has expanded his repertoire into landscape,
concentrating on the accurate interpretation of features such as mist,
foliage and water. This book contains many of Coulson's best-known paintings
as well as a number of hitherto unpublished works.
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| Hardcover
- 96 pages (30 June, 1991) |
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Boys
Own Battle of Britain. Peter Cross (Illustrator). Pavilion Books
Ltd; ISBN:
1851453784 |
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In
a fun-packed celebration of the Battle of Britain, artist Peter Cross recounts
the events of the summer of 1940 in a series of paintings. He depicted
"our finest hour" as the last great "Boy's Own" adventure restaging it
as a home match in which the swinnish bovver boys of St Hitla's take on
the underdog home team of our lads from Biggin Hill School. As the match
proceeds the reader will meet the leaders of both sides - the home team's
shrewd senior housemaster Mr Dowdy and respected headmaster , Mr Winston,
and the opposition's fiendish Mr Adolfus and loathsome Fatty Goering. Although
the competition is fierce and the weaponry formidable - Spitfire bicycles
and the Meshermschmitt motor mowers - in the end at the final whistle,
"the few" are victorious. Peter Cross has also illustrated "Trouble for
Trumpets" and "And All This"
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| Hardcover
- 30 pages (6 June, 1990) |
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