John Davies
Monkwearmouth Colliery, Sunderland

Monkwearmouth Colliery, Sunderland

© John Davies/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Monkwearmouth Colliery, Sunderland
Monkwearmouth Colliery, Sunderland
ArtistBritish, born 1949
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Monkwearmouth Colliery, Sunderland
Date1983
Place depictedSunderland, England
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern and Photo Forum 2015 in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement
Object number2015.212
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionWhile evoking the long British tradition of landscape depiction, Davies is equally interested in the history of the sites that he photographs. Monkwearmouth Colliery in the northeastern English county of Durham was the last of the region’s coal mines to remain operating, and it too closed a decade after Davies’s photograph, ending more than eight hundred years of commercial coal mining in the area.
ProvenanceArtist via Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2015

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