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In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz - Rachel Reckitt’s War Work

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Although our London exhibition ‘In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz’ is currently closed as part of England's National Lockdown we were able, before Lockdown, to interview Booker Prize winning novelist Dame Penelope Lively.

In this video she discusses her aunt, the artist Rachel Reckitt’s time in London helping with the relief effort in Whitechapel during the Blitz (September 1940 – May 1941).

Based at Toynbee Hall, working for the London Borough of Stepney, Reckitt rehomed dispossessed families and evacuated children to the countryside, including to her family home in Somerset, which she turned into a war nursery. Absorbed by her relief work, Reckitt – who had trained at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art – made occasional war pictures from this time – paintings and wood engravings.

If you would like to see works featured in the exhibition while our doors are closed why not consult Collections Online at: https://collections.rafmuseum.org.uk/

Interview by Curator Julia Beaumont-Jones.
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