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  • One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

1944–55

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Available online is a collection of drawings and watercolours by Herman. They are mostly of the people and streets of Ystradgynlais dating from 1944-1955. The collection also includes drawings made on a tour of France and Italy in 1948, and studies for major works like 'South Wales' 1951, 'Three Miners' 1953 and 'In Homage for the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto' 1945.

See also TGA 201217, a selection of digitised items from the personal papers of Josef Herman.

Collection Owner
Josef Herman 1911–2000
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to the Archive by Josef Herman, March 1983.
Reference
TGA 835

159 objects in this collection

  • One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

    159 Objects

Title
One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman
Date
1944–55
Description
Available online is a collection of drawings and watercolours by Herman. They are mostly of the people and streets of Ystradgynlais dating from 1944-1955. The collection also includes drawings made on a tour of France and Italy in 1948, and studies for major works like 'South Wales' 1951, 'Three Miners' 1953 and 'In Homage for the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto' 1945.

See also TGA 201217, a selection of digitised items from the personal papers of Josef Herman.
Reference
TGA 835

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‘Underground Scene, III’ (Notes from a Welsh Diary)

Josef Herman
1950
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Sketch of a kneeling miner, with another miner distant in tunnel

Josef Herman
date not known
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Drawing titled ‘Study of Gwyn’ (Notes from a Welsh Diary)

Josef Herman
1945
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Sketch of two roadmenders, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[c.1947–8]
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Sketch of man in a street, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[c.1946]
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Sketch of a squatting miner

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of three sheep shearers, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[c.1946–7]
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Sketch of three sheep shearers, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[c.1946–7]
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‘Crouching miners’ (Notes from a Welsh Diary)

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of a miner underground

Josef Herman
[c.1950]
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Sketch of a miner hewing underground, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[1945]
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Sketch of a miner underground, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[1945]
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Sketch of the road to the mines, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[c.1954–5]
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Sketch of on the road near the tip, Ystradgynlais in background

Josef Herman
[c.1951–2]
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‘Scrubbing the Floor’ (Notes from a Welsh Diary)

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of Ystradgynlais in the rain

Josef Herman
[c.1947–8]
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Sketch of the fiancés and friend

Josef Herman
[c.1948–9]
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Sketch of a weary miner, seated

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a pregnant woman and Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[1950]
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Sketch of a miner

Josef Herman
[c.1945–6]
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