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1961
1961 - 1394.PDF
498 FLIGHT, 28 September •M\ CROSS COUNTRY Ann Welch THUNDER AND LIGHTNING A WIDER HORIZON Aviation Artists — now "The Industrial Painters' Group, incorporating the Society of Aviation Artists" —Hold their Annual Show THE TRIDENT Beresford Johnson FOR THEIR EIGHTH EXHIBITION at Guildhall, London(continuing until October 7), the Society of Aviation Artists have widened their scope: now, incorporated with the Industrial PaintersGroup, they display their talents over a wide range of other subjects. As Roy Nockolds explained at the opening of the exhi-bition, pressure to make this extension came from within the Society Among the widely differing pictures, however, the aviationpaintings more than hold their own. Indeed, one of the most attractive of any in the exhibition is that of the historic Alcock andBrown flight, by G. Davison Coulson. Full of movement and drama, the heaving, spume-streaming waves compel one's atten-tion. As the night clouds thicken and close down, the pale rays of the sun bleakly light the Vickers Vimy as it roars low above themenacing dark blue-green Atlantic. Close by, and in immediate contrast in time, two flights ofbrightly chequered Lightnings, armed with Firestreak, hurtle out from high piling clouds in a purposeful manner in a painting b\E. R. Linklater. ' " RENDEZVOUS"—SICEETER AND CENTURION ON THE TANK TRAINING RANGES AT DETMOLD David i
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