A Miner at Work

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Description

Object description

image: the interior of a mine-shaft. The face is being worked by a half-naked miner with his back to the viewer. He wields a pickaxe by the light of a solitary Davy lamp, his back resting against a wooden prop.

Physical description

Pencil, wax crayons, coloured crayons, pen & ink & wash on paper. Floated mounted within a window mount, framed in British Council Standard Moore frame, with curved corners.

Label

At his own suggestion, Moore was commissioned in August 1941 by the War Artists Advisory Committee to make drawings of Coal Mining at Wheldale Colliery, Yorkshire, where his father had worked at the beginning of the century. Moore made a number of visits during that winter and submitted drawings in May 1942. The original commission was for 25 guineas but eight drawings were purchased for 80 guineas and a further three seem to have been added later. Drawing the male figure was a departure for Moore and lead to the inclusion of male forms in his sculpture. Although coal mining had been in decline since 1913, at the start of the Second World War it was still a large industry, accounting for 10% of all exports. The miner seems impossibly constrained at the coal face, almost inseparable from his surroundings. The subject matter is a continuation of Moore's war time subterranean interests.

History note

War Artists Advisory Committee Commission, 1942

Inscription

Moore 42

Object Details

Category

Art

Creator

Moore, Henry Spencer

Production date

1942

Place made

Great Britain, United Kingdom

Materials

Frame: wood

Mount: card

Support: paper

medium: Watercolour

medium: chalk

medium: ink

medium: crayon

Dimensions

Mount: Height 756 mm., Width 704 mm.

Support: Height 491 mm., Width 496 mm.

External Frame: Depth 33 mm., Height 773 mm., Width 724 mm.

Catalogue number

Art.IWM ART LD 5947

Object associations

Associated events

Home Front, UK, Second World War
Associated places

Great Britain GB
Castleford, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
Wheldale Colliery, Castleford, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
Associated keywords

Industry
civilian effort
interior
workers
Associated themes

British Home Front 1939-1945

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A Miner at Work

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Object description

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History note

Inscription

Object Details

Object associations

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