painting, Removing Casualties from a Wellington
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-3888
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
RCAF, Coastal Command - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Goldhamer, Flight Lieutenant Charles
- Date Made 1944/12/18
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1944/12/18
- Latest 1944/12/18
- Inscription (recto): CHARLES GOLDHAMER
- Medium watercolour
- Support paper on art boardmat
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Royal Canadian Air Force
- Unit 407 SquadronRMB Chivenor
- Measurements Height 40.5 cm, Width 58.0 cm
- Caption Goldhamer, Charles (1903-1985)
- Additional Information Goldhamer enlisted in the RCAF in 1943 as a supervisor of art programs for air force personnel. As an official war artist from 1944 to 1946, he portrayed severely burnt airmen convalescing at an advanced plastic surgery unit in England. After the war he continued his career as a teacher and painter.