Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne | Building Aircraft: Banking at 4,000 Feet | Prints Drawings & Photographs

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Building Aircraft: Banking at 4,000 Feet

Artist Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne
nationality English
birth-death 1889-1946-1889-1946
Creation date 1917
Materials lithograph
Dimensions 15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in (image) 20 1/8 x 15 3/4 in (sheet)
Credit line Anonymous Gift
Accession number 33.13

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As an official war artist, Nevinson was able to go up in planes and recorded, perhaps for the first time by an artist, the world as seen from a maneuvering Sopwith Camel at 4,000 feet.

"In all modesty I still think my aeroplane pictures are the finest work I have done. The whole newness of vision and the excitement of it, infected my work and gave it an enthusiasm which can be felt."
-C.R.W. Nevinson

"The curious sensation of the man back of the pilot, of being motionless while the torque of the propeller in front is mad with motion and the flat checker-board of the earth swiftly comes and goes."
-Christian Brinton, 1919

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drawing, early flight, movement, off center, patchwork landscape, pilot, Plane, propeller
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