1925 (ca.), George Luks, Coal Miners -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: In 1925, George Luks worked in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on a mural commission intended to depict the discovery of coal in the region. Modeled in the artist's signature dark tones, Coal Miners records a subterranean setting where miners stand amid a maze of contrasting diagonals. A single arc of pale cyan watercolor indicates the above-ground world. Like his paintings of New York laborers, Luks's depictions of Pennsylvania coal miners are reverential tributes. The large, muscular men dominate the composition, unbowed despite the dangerous conditions and physically taxing requirements of their task.
1925 (ca.), George Luks, Coal Miners -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: In 1925, George Luks worked in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on a mural commission intended to depict the discovery of coal in the region. Modeled in the artist's signature dark tones, Coal Miners records a subterranean setting where miners stand amid a maze of contrasting diagonals. A single arc of pale cyan watercolor indicates the above-ground world. Like his paintings of New York laborers, Luks's depictions of Pennsylvania coal miners are reverential tributes. The large, muscular men dominate the composition, unbowed despite the dangerous conditions and physically taxing requirements of their task.