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"Bevin Boys"- date unknown...Painting by #TedHolloway (British,1926-1987)..Conscripted as a #BevinBoy during the #SecondWorldWar..
Holloway's new surroundings and experiences as a Bevin Boy inspired him and he began depicting life underground.
Northern art: "Just How I Remember it"...Painting by #AlexanderMillar..
Contemporary #Scottish painter, born in #Kilmarnock #Scotland 1960)..
Northern art: "The Busy Bar"...Painting by #NormanCornish (British,1919-2014)..The last #PitmanPainter, a miner for 33 years, born in #Spennymoor #CoDurham.
Known for his depictions of mining community life..#Humanist.
"Night Convoy" 1943...Oil on canvas by #WilliamScott (British,1913-1989)..Known for his still-life and abstract painting..
Image: A convoy of troop carrying trucks passing along a street at night...In the back of the nearest truck, troops are visible lying under blankets.
#WWII
"Winter Table" 1939...Oil on canvas by #JohnAldridge (British,1905-1983)..
Self-taught artist who lived in #GreatBardfield #Essex, with his cats, from 1933 until his death in 1983..
Member of the group of #GreatBardfieldArtists
"Welcome Cuppa" c1983...Painting by #ValerieGanz (British,1936-2015)..Born in #Swansea #Wales..
Ganz was a Welsh painter, known for her paintings of South Wales coal miners..
During the 1980s she spent several days a week underground, sketching miners at work..
"Miners Returning from Work" 1930s...Painting by #ArchieRhysGriffiths (Welsh,1902-1971) #PitmanArtist.
Group of men portrayed on their way home, under a lowering sky, the painters palette uniformly dark...
#Rhonnda #Wales
"The James and the Foremost Prince" 1934...Watercolour by #EricRavilious (British,1903-1942)..
Sussex-born painter and now one of the most popular British artists of the 20th century..
Official #WarArtist WWII lost in action over Iceland..
Member of #GreatBardfieldArtists
"Waltham Cross" 1933...Watercolour by #EdwardBawden (British,1903-1989)..
Member of the group of #GreatBardfieldArtists.
Official #WarArtist WWII
"Verdun" 1917...Oil on canvas by #FelixVallotton (Swiss/French,1865-1925)...#Swiss born #French painter.
#WarArtist WWI..
Painting of the battle of #Verdun..