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@marysia_cc @Peasweat2 @GrimArtGroup I’m a big fan of Norman Cornish, who included washing lines in many of his paintings. I particularly like ‘Wash Day’, where the drying ground is also used to graze a horse while children and their dog play on it. Fantastic art and social history. (Private Collection)
Four linocuts by Cyril Power, best known for his artistic partnership with Sybil Andrews and for co-founding the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in 1925.
Norman Cornish (1919-2014), best known of the pit men painters of County Durham, became a full-time artist at the age of 47, when a back injury brought to an end 33 years of mining. His subject remained the lives of those who lived and worked in his home town of Spennymoor.
‘Firth’s Mills, Bailiff Bridge’ by Leeds artist Geoffrey Woolsey Birks (1929-1993). He wanted to capture the fast disappearing atmosphere of the industrial past of the West Riding of Yorkshire. (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council)
‘End of the Day, High Level Bridge’ by Barrow artist Bill Bell (1928-2006) shows the famous Vickers crush. Bell worked at Vickers all his life and his paintings were inspired by what he encountered every day. (The Dock Museum)
‘Pub Entertainer’ by Roger Hampson(1925-1996). His paintings portrayed the close knit community spirit among the miners and mill workers of his home town of Bolton. (Salford Museum & Art Gallery)
‘Pit Road with Telegraph Pole and Lights’ by Norman Cornish. Although for many years a miner himself he rarely painted work underground, preferring to capture the daily walk to and from the pit. (Northumbria University Gallery)
‘Shunting Engine-Night’ circa 1954 by Kenneth Gribble (1925-1995). Thought to be Guide Bridge Goods Yard, Manchester. Gribble produced some of his best work in the late 1950’s when Principal of the art school in Ashton-under-Lyne. (Sold at Wright Marshall in 2015)
‘Snow Scene, Red Lane, Disley, Cheshire’ by Ian Grant (1904-1993). Exhibited regularly at the Manchester Academy and the Midday studios. Well known for the subtle blue, pink and orange tints of his snow scenes. (Derby Museum and Art Gallery)
Monday Morning by Geoffrey Birks (1929-93). There's a lot going on int' picture by this lad from Leeds @mike_loseby @TrentArtGallery