END OF AN ERA
 By Frank Wootton
Innsbruck –Austria May 1945
With the splender of an Alpine backdrop the allies discovered Me 262’s hastily abandoned at the Wars end.
This stunning print is signed by Leutnant Norbert Hannig who first flew with JG54 on the Eastern front and at the wars end he was flying the legendary Me 262’s with JG7 and JV44.
His final victory tally was 42 aircraft destroyed.

FRANK WOOTTON, as a student studied at Eastbourne College of Art under Eric Ravillious and Reeve-Fowkes, and gained the Travelling Scholarship and Gold Medal.

During the war he was invited by the C.-in-C. Allied Air Forces, Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, to a Special Duty Commission as Official War Artist to the Royal Air Force.  In this capacity he saw service in Normandy, India
and Burma. The subjects painted during this period are now with the Imperial War Museum and various RAF Command Stations throughout the country. Since the war Frank Wootton had renewed his interest in Landscape painting and paintings of Equestrian subjects and has exhibited at the Royal Academy of ROI and many other galleries. He has travelled extensively around the world carrying out commissions.  A large number of his paintings have been purchased for permanent collections and his work has been widely published in international journals, editions for framing and in his books “The Landscape Paintings of Frank Wootton” (1989) and
“50 Years of Aviation Art” (1992). He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1995.
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Published in 2003

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