Pit Boys at Pithead Mini Print by Henry Moore Patron featuring elongated jumpers print design

featuring elongated jumpers print design

including several of his sketchbooks recording his travels around Europe

Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters catalogues Hepworth's surviving plaster prototypes

embracing the unpredictability of the making process

It is also shown as the original larger-scale photographic work in the exhibition Hannah Starkey: Real Life

Pit Boys at Pithead Mini Print by Henry Moore Patron featuring elongated jumpers print designMini print depicting Henry Moore's Pitboys at Pit Head (1942), part of the Wakefield Permanent Art Collection. In the early 1940s Moore was commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark, chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee, to illustrate the work of the Bevin Boys, the young men who were conscripted to dig coal to fuel the factories producing armaments for the war effort. Moore returned to Wheldale Colliery in Castleford where his father had been pit