Large Framed Oil Painting R.A.A.F. P-51 Mustang (Date Unknown) By Norman Clifford
 
Norman Clifford was a renowned Australian aviation artist whose works include paintings and drawings of aircraft, including the P-51 Mustang depicted in the image. 
 
Norman Clifford, or Norm Clifford, was an Australian illustrator, painter and comic artist. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Clifford drew the aviation series 'Sky Demons', which became the best-selling comic book in Australia for a while. Most of his other comic book series, like 'Daredevil Comic', 'Wonder Wings', 'Billy Battle' and 'Thrilling Space Adventures', were also aviation-themed. Two odd-one outs are his children's comics 'The Olympixies' and 'Adventures in Tiny Land' (1956-1957) in New Idea Magazine. From the 1960s on, Clifford devoted his career to making realistic illustrations and paintings, glorifying pilots, planes, aerial battles and well-known aviators from World War I, II and the Korean War. Interestingly enough, Clifford has never been an aviator himself, his only experience in the field being as an aircraft assembly employee. 
 
Clifford was a distinguished comic book artist in the 1950s and, since the 1980s, has extensively painted Australian historical aviation themes.
 
He illustrated the 1981 edition of world war II flying ace Arthur Henry Cobby’s autobiography, High Adventure (Melbourne: Kookaburra Technical Publications).
 
He was commissioned by Hawker de Havilland Australia to do a collection in tribute to the Australian aviator and Hawker founder, Harry Hawker. A calendar of 12 paintings was published for 1998. He also compiled a history Australian Flying Corps (AFC), published May 2018. A series of Australia Post pre-paid envelopes including his artwork was released in 2016.
 
For the Sport Aircraft Association of Australia, he painted a poster to commemorate the last Mangalore Air Show in 1989, an event that had been held at the Mangalore Airfield in Victoria since the end of WWII.
 
This oil painting is housed in a double-framed print on a Linen canvas measuring approximately. 50 cm x 68 cm.
 
The artist has signed the Painting
 
No record of the Art piece online, so perhaps likely a commissioned piece for an airshow as described on the rear of the painting. 
 
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