A painting by Norman Cornish, the last of the "Pitman painters", is to go on permanent display at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. Norman Cornish, a former miner from Spennymoor, County Durham ...
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When a conservator at a British museum removed a board at the back of a prominent Norman Cornish artwork for an upcoming exhibition, he made a “magical” discovery: On the reverse was a self-portrait ...
A newly discovered self-portrait of a coal miner turned prolific artist is being displayed at an exhibition. Norman Cornish, from Spennymoor, County Durham, was known as the last of the "Pitman ...
A self-portrait of the coal miner artist Norman Cornish—depicts a grimy young man with tousled hair—has been rediscovered on the reverse of one of his crowded pub scenes. Cornish, born in 1919 in ...
NORMAN CORNISH worked underground in the Durham coalfield for 33 years, but at the age of 46 he took the bold decision to leave mining and become a professional artist. It was a decision which could ...
It was in November last year that the Director of Northumbria University art gallery, Professor Jean Brown, caused a bit of a stir when she spoke on the Radio 4 Today programme about the art ...
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