A new study of a rare painting could unlock clues about a celebrated miner artist, according to researchers.<\/p>\n
Colliery Row by North East painter Norman Cornish has been donated to Northumbria University, which already owns the world’s largest collection of Cornish’s paintings.<\/p>\n
The artwork is considered rare as it was painted in 1947, when Cornish was still working as a miner at Dean and Chapter Colliery Ferryhill, making it the earliest work in the university’s possession.<\/p>\n
PhD student Jennifer Myers, who will be carrying out scientific analysis of the paining, said her research aimed to look at Cornish’s materials and development as an artist.<\/p>\n
“This painting gives us a rare chance to study an artwork which may provide more clues about the detail of Cornish’s working practice during that transition [from miner to artist],” she said.<\/p>\n
“What excites me most about this painting is that it comes from such an early point in Cornish’s career, before he left mining to focus on art full time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study of a rare painting could unlock clues about a celebrated miner artist, according to researchers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-554513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}