The renowned sculptor an artist drew more than 100 sketches in a Yorkshire colliery in 1942.
A collection of coal mining sketches by the artist Henry Moore is to be shown in the largest exhibition of its kind.War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1942The artist spent time in the coal pits with miners at Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire, where his father had worked.
Moore spent a week in the mine drawing from observation, before working from memory to create the remaining drawings, which were all completed within six months.Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see drawings from four coalmining sketchbooks, in which Moore used pencil, ink and wax They have been loaned from the Henry Moore Foundation and family, the British Museum and National Coalmining Museum.Farhana Begum, of St Albans Museums, described it as a "fantastic collaboration".
Annabel Lucas, curator at University Hertfordshire Arts Programme, said bringing the sketches to St Albans was "thrilling" and "invites us to look afresh at Moore as a sculptor."The exhibition also takes inspiration from a new book about Moore called "Drawing in the Dark", written by art historian Chris Owen, which will be launched at the same time.
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