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For more than two decades, BrandNet has commissioned original artworks to tell Australian military stories. These paintings became the source of limited-edition prints, medallions, collectables and gifts that found their way into thousands of Australian homes. The original paintings themselves were never sold. They have remained in the BrandNet Archives ever since.
Now, for the first time, the originals are being offered to collectors. Unlike the numbered editions that came after it, the original is not one of a limited edition. It is a true one of one. There is only one original, and once it is sold it leaves the BrandNet Archives and will never be available again.
P-51D Mustang: Cutting the Lines is the original acrylic on canvas by Australian aviation artist Drew Harrison, from the Iconic Aviation Collection, the six-painting series commissioned to celebrate aircraft that shaped Royal Australian Air Force history. It captures a specific mission from Australia’s first air campaign of the jet age: on 17 December 1950, four Mustangs of No. 77 Squadron RAAF attacked a railway bridge near Sonchon, Korea, after previous attempts by heavier bombers had failed. The bridge was destroyed with bombs alone, cutting the supply lines that kept an advancing army moving.
The Mustang entered Australian service in the final year of the Second World War, and by 1950 No. 77 Squadron was the last Australian Mustang unit in Japan, preparing to return home, when North Korea invaded the South. Within days the squadron was committed to the United Nations response, flying its first Korean operations on 2 July 1950. Initially escorting bombers, the Mustangs increasingly became fighter-bombers, attacking roads, railways, bridges and troops with bombs, rockets and machine-gun fire. The cost was real: the commanding officer, Wing Commander Lou Spence, was killed in a low-level attack in September 1950. When the MiG-15 changed the air war, the squadron withdrew to convert to Meteor jets, having flown 3,872 Mustang sorties in just nine months, a period that established 77 Squadron as one of Australia’s most important post-war combat units.
Harrison deliberately moved beyond the Mustang’s familiar image as a celebrated Second World War fighter. The aircraft enter the scene low, fast and armed, their polished forms contrasting with the hard geometry of the railway below, which carries the viewer’s eye through the landscape to the bridge. Low-level attack exposed pilots to ground fire and left little margin for error, and placing the aircraft close to the ground makes that danger immediate. The result is an image about the Mustang as a combat tool, not simply an aviation icon.
The original is the unique source work behind the P-51D Mustang limited-edition canvas, paper and aluminium artworks, and has remained in the BrandNet Archives since the commission.
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