Cleveland Potash Mine

Made:
1983 in Cleveland
artist:
Len Tabner

Painting. Cleveland Potash Mine, Boulby, by Len Tabner, November 1983. Mixed media: pastel, graphite, charcoal and watercolour, [sight size] 71x95.5cm mounted in frame, 106x131.5x3.5cm. - Scene looking inside the mine (the only potash and deepest mine in Britain at c4000 feet, opened 1973). - Inscribed br: Man-saving gate, 5-1 belt; near belt end - just before 60" belt. control room down on left. Side walls and roof area girder reinforced. - Artist visited mine many times during 1982-1985 and worked some 500 pictures in difficult conditions lit only by lamps on miners' helmets

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
1987-63
Materials:
mixed media: pastel, graphite, charcoal, watercolour
Measurements:
overall: 1070 mm x 1320 mm x 40 mm,
frame: 1060 mm x 1315 mm x 35 mm,
image [sight]: 710 mm x 955 mm
type:
painting
copyright:
Tabner, Len
credit:
Imperial College of Science & Technology

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