I seem to remember, from when I saw the exhibition at Woodhorn
Museum, that there was a second book just devoted to those painters.
In fact I suspect that somewhere I have a copy.
Dave
On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Peter Challis wrote:
> Perhaps in atonement for its recent rather puerile 'Britain's Most
> Exciting Museum', 'competition' today's Guardian carries a full
> page report on the opening of a £16m museum and gallery devoted to
> the unique 'Ashington Group', better known perhaps as the 'Pitmen
> Painters'. Anyone familiar with the work of this remarkable group
> of Northumberland colliers will surely be pleased to learn that
> their work has now, at long last, found a permanent home.
>
> For anyone who is even remotely interested in mining art and in
> particular art created by 'untutored' working-class artists and
> their development during the 1930s under the tutelage of committed
> lecturers from the WEA can do no better than read the remarkable
> book, 'Shafts of Light Mining Art in the Great Northern Coalfield',
> McManners, R. & Wales, G., Gemini Productions. 2002, for a deep
> insight into the history of art in mining and of the work of these
> men together with superb reproductions of some of their work. For
> this writer the book is on a par with Klingender's famous 'Art And
> the Industrial Revolution'.
>
> Pete Challis
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