The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators presents “Air Force Art,” opening September 5 through September 29, 2012. The exhibition showcases the original art from illustrators documenting the United States Air Force through a wide variety of technological and figurative works.
Shortly after the Air Force became recognized as a separate service in 1947 they received a generous donation of over 500 combat art paintings from World War II, establishing a valuable historic record of the military operations during the early twentieth century. Four years later the