How Henry Moore mined a rich seam A wartime commission in a coalmine showed the artist's melancholy side

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A wartime commission in a coalmine showed the artist's melancholy side The Art Newspaper London Article discussing the book "Drawing in the Dark: Henry Moore's Coalmining Commission" by Chris Owen which was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name.
The article describes Moores experience of producing his drawings of coalminers in Yorkshire 1941-42 when he was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to record their contribution to the war effort.
1 Moore illus: Miners Pushing Tubs, 1942 (HMF 1933)