A new art exhibition has opened in St Albans featuring the largest-ever collection of coal mining drawings by the celebrated artist Henry Moore.
Set to run until April 16, the exhibition is titled Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark, and is being held at St Albans Museum + Gallery, based in the former town hall.
Though Moore is most well-known for his abstract bronze sculptures that can be found across the globe, he was also prolific in the field of drawing. His most famous pieces are a collection of sketches of Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War.
The drawings featured in this exhibition are comparatively obscure, but of the same high quality. They originate from 1942, when Moore was commissioned by the government’s War Artists Advisory Committee to draw scenes of coal mining at the Wheldale Colliery in Castleford, Yorkshire.
This was a uniquely personal undertaking for Moore, as the pit was the same one in which his father had once worked.
These pieces reveal a personal side to Moore’s work and offer real insight into the hard labour that coal miners undertook at the time.
To find out more about the exhibition, visit their website.
Photo credit: St Albans Museum
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