The scale, shape and detail of the Sorrell's painting give some indication of the work required to construct the many runways required to defend Britain and to launch attacks on Germany. The runway dominates the landscape, slicing through and side-lining the old agricultural order. This is clearly the future, the run-down farmhouse part of the past.

Oil on canvas 66 x 187.9 cm
Painted in London, 1946
Imperial War Museum ART LD 5674

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