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Five miners in hats, boots, and coveralls; some are hunched over and dejected while others stand tall and proud.
Miners
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Miners

Artist Chet Harmon La More (American, 1908 - 1980)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Datec. 1937-1939
MediumColor woodcut
Dimensionssheet: 15 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. (38.4 x 48.6 cm)
image: 11 7/8 x 16 1/16 in. (30.2 x 40.8 cm)
matt: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams
Object number1992.11.81
Collections
Visual DescriptionFive miners in hats, boots, and coveralls; some are hunched over and dejected while others stand tall and proud.
Three children are sitting on the ground; the middle child is drawing a face while the other two watch.
Drawing Lesson
Chet Harmon La More
1936-1943
A huge hillside of coal with geometric forms sticking up out of the coal.
Coal Landscape
Chet Harmon La More
1936-1943
A zoomed-in view of two miners wearing lighted helmets.
Untitled (Miners' Heads)
Blanche Grambs
1935-1943
A man and woman seated in foreground; man in dark clothing and miners hat on; woman with yellow hair and white dress; industrial building in background.
Germinal Homage to Emile Zola
Philip Evergood
1963
Portrait of a miner in profile wearing a hat, holding a shovel in his right hand and a cigarette in his left hand; another miner works in the background.
Portrait of a Miner
Philip Evergood
1938
Studio portrait of father and daughter, possibly in the Caribbean. Man wears a light suit and tie with hat and sandals and girl wears a dress, braids in her hair, and boots. Both sit on a bench. Vernacular photograph by amateur photographer in the 20th century.
Untitled (studio portrait of father & daughter, possibly in the Caribbean)
American Artist
c. 1950
40 men gathered for their portrait outside mine with the headlamps illuminated.
Wales, Portrait of a group of miners, from the series Welsh Miners
Bruce Davidson
1965
Black and white print of a man leaping in the air in a dance. He wears boots, loose pants and a vest open at the chest. A similar man dances behind him to the right. Tents are visible in the background.
Mongolian Wrestlers Dance
Thomas Handforth
undated
Black and white print of three men wearing loose, patterned pants, boots, and vests with bare chests. Two men face the viewer, and one has his back turned. There are tents and banners visible in the background.
Mongolian Wrestlers
Thomas Handforth
1936
A black and white print of a young woman with dark hair and bangs in plaid dress. She is carrying a young child in a coat and buttoned leg-coverings or boots.
Maltese Nursemaid
Thomas Handforth
1925
Parts of the Body; Italian Vocabulary Lesson
Parts of the Body; Italian Vocabulary Lesson
Larry Rivers
1963
A pair of well-modeled pottery figures of grooms, standing with arms held forward and fists clenched, wearing loose, belted garments and boots, the heads with peaked caps, the faces with vigorous expressions. With traces of pigment on the orange-brown body.
Pair of Tomb Attendants 彩釉立俑
Chinese Artist
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

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