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Description: | Graham Sutherland's watercolour shows an open-cast coalmine, where earth is dredged away from coal seams lying close to the surface. Sutherland painted a number of coalmine scenes in Wales, where this scene may be set. He was working as War Artist, recording the war effort in Britain during the Second World War (1939-1945). As usual at this time, Sutherland has focused on the patterns presented by the landscape. Many War Artists used watercolour, as the materials were fairly easy to obtain, and were easier to manage than oils in awkward wartime locations. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art movement artists watercolours art science and industry | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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