Portrait of Griffith Thomas – Pit Profile No.1

YKSMM: 1997.1112
Artist
H. Andrew Freeth
Date
1940s
Medium
Charcoal and Crayon

Pit Profiles were a feature in the National Coal Board’s monthly publication, Coal magazine. The artist was commissioned by the NCB to visit different collieries to draw and talk to miners across the coalfields. The resulting images and interviews appeared in Coal. This image of Griffith Thomas was the first Pit Profile, published in May 1946.

This drawing on paper shows a head and shoulder view with the sitter wearing a cloth cap.

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