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Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
Category Communication artifacts
Sub-category Art
Department Art and Memorials
Museum CWM
Earliest 1943/01/01
Latest 1943/12/31
Inscription (recto): Studies of air crew and Sandra Lights 6 Heavy Bomber Group R.C.A.F. Linton-Upon-Ouse, Yorks; Battle of the Ruhr; 1943 CFS (verso): Photographed in colour Nov.25/61; Studies air crew and Sandra Lights 6 Heavy Bomber Group R.C.A.F. Linton-Upon-Ouse, Yorks Battle of the Ruhr 1943; 408 & 426 Sdns; Study for 27 1/2" x 41 1/2" Watercolour titled "Q.Queenie" Coll National War Museum Ottawa # A/C 0.5767 C. Schaefer F/Lt.
Medium watercolour
ink
Support paper
Materials Not applicable
Service Component Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit 408 Squadron
426 Squadron
Measurements Height 30.2 cm, Width 45.5 cm
Related activity Smoking, Parachutist

Caption Carl Schaefer (1903 - 1995)
Additional Information As an official war artist with the RCAF, Schaefer served with Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands in the United Kingdom and Iceland. The 221 paintings, sketchbooks, and war diaries retained in the art collection of the Canadian War Museum bear testament to war years richly lived and experienced. Carl Schaefer was born in Hanover, Ontario, and attended the Ontario College of Art. The Group of Seven artists J.E.H. MacDonald and Arthur Lismer were among his teachers. In essence a landscapist, he found the countryside around his birthplace particularly inspiring, especially during the lean years of the 1930s. His fortunes as an artist turned when in 1940 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to paint full-time in New England. Three years later he was commissioned into the RCAF. After the war he taught for many years at the Ontario College of Art before retiring.

painting, Studies of Aircrew and Sandra Lights