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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
Published References Susan Kismaric. "British Photography in the Thatcher Years". Museum of Modern Art, 1991 "Houston Foto Fest: The Month of Photography 1986". Moderna: Edizioni Panini, 1985 This is a very limited list from over 20 books: John Davies. "The British Landscape", Introduction by Jonathan Glancey. London: Boot, 2006 John Davies. "Cities on the Edge". Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008 "Madre Tierra: John Davies, Edward Burtynsky, Rinko Kawauchi". Barcelona: La Fábrica: Fundación Santander Central Hispano, 2006 Davjd Hopkins. "After Modern Art 1945-2000". Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 p. 20, Durham Coalfield and Druridge Bay, 1983 series - N°7

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