Henry Moore, Pit Boys at Pithead, 1942 Type:art print Katrina Palmer

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he had abandoned strict abstraction in favour of a more romantic portrayal of buildings and places

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This limited edition lithograph print by contemporary British artist Clare Woods

Henry Moore, Pit Boys at Pithead, 1942 Type:art print Katrina PalmerIn the early 1940s Henry 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 manger. As with his shelter drawings, he used a technique of layering white wax crayon with watercolour,