Description: Vintage 1988 signed and numbered 95/500 print by Ray Honisett. Measures 20" x 15 3/4". Printed on textured paper. Item is preowned, but in excellent condition. Ray Honisett (1931-2019) was Australia's premier stamp designer and an artist of international reputation. The creator of forty Australian stamps, he was a winner of the coveted International Philatelic Gold Medal and a Fellow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. A native Australian, Honisett moved to England as a young man but returned to Australia in 1962 where he kept busy with his teaching, his painting and his extraordinary stamp designs. Ray Honisett was the leading war artist in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, producing paintings which showed scenes from the Korean War, Malayan Emergency, and Vietnam War, amongst others, usually of ships and/or aircraft. "This is one of sixteen paintings commissioned by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation as a Bicentennial gift to the Australian people in 1988. The paintings by Australia's leading aviation artist Ray Honisett of Melbourne depict significant moments in the history of Australian aviation.This painting, entitled 'Airborne' depicts J. R. Duigan as he makes the first powered flight of an Australian built aircraft in 1910.-- Judith Campbell, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences volunteer, under the supervision of Margaret Simpson, Curator, July 2019
Price: 49.92 USD
Location: Moberly, Missouri
End Time: 2025-01-11T22:32:33.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 60 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Numbered: 95/500
Type: Print
Limited Edition: Yes
Signed: Pencil signed
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Modified Item: No
