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Coal Mining Collection
Located in Montreal, Quebec
well as mining sites or areas of intensive agriculture. Greatly influenced by musical creation, DJing
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mountain Top Coal Mining
Located in Montreal, Quebec
well as mining sites or areas of intensive agriculture. Greatly influenced by musical creation, DJing
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Strip Mining in American Coal - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Strip Mining in American Coal - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Marion Rhodes (1907-1998) - 20th Century Aquatint, Open Cast Coal Mining
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished aquatint print depicting industrial work at Over Hulton in Greater Manchester. Signed and titled in graphite below the plate line. On paper.
Category

20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Aquatint

German Ruhr Area Mining Tower - Outdoor Barbecue Charcoal Grill- Garden Ornament
By Stefan Traloc
Located in Winterswijk, NL
in Bottrop, Germany, closed its last active coal mine. For us, the winding tower, or rather the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Augustus Cassels after Nikolai Kasatkin - Century Oil, Gathering Coal
Located in Corsham, GB
a Worked-Out Mine'. The scene shows women and children mining for coal in a Russian mountainside
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Welcome to Nowhere Mining Town Movie Stage Theater Prop Advertising Sign
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Large wooden town sign Welcome to Nowhere, has a coal miner on it holding a pick ax wearing a
Category

Vintage 1950s American Decorative Art

Materials

Wood

Owen Weiri (also Wiiri), The Coal Miner
Located in New York, NY
then, during World War ll, in the American armed forces as a marine. Industrial subjects, and coal
Category

1940s Ashcan School Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

American Modernist Abstract Mining Scene Watercolor Painting, Red Green Brown
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
of a mining town in the mountains, completed in colors of red, green, yellow, and black. Presented in
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, " Ernest Fiene, WPA Coal Steamboat
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
mountainous coal mining country with a majestic beauty." Winter on the River is Fiene's only American
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Welsh Miner.1970s Social Realist Work.Original Mixed Media Painting.Coal Mines.
By Jack Crabtree
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
locally at Rochdale College of Art from 1955-57. He then attended the St. Martin’s School of Art
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

1972 Original Soviet propaganda poster - Our coal provides! - Cold War - USSR
Located in PARIS, FR
support for continued investment in coal mining and production. Industry - Energy - USSR - Russia
Category

1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Paper, Linen

Original Vintage Poster-Jean D'Ylen-Charbon-Commodity-Mining-Rail, 1924
By Jean d'Ylen
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
, Coal, Mining Type: Vintage Poster Features: Signed, 1st Edition Subject: Advertising, Mining, Coal
Category

20th Century French Art Deco Posters

Materials

Paper

"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
strike breaking, especially in the coal mining and steel-production centers. He did much illustration
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Cumberland Gap
Located in Denver, CO
. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and the Blue Ridge as well
Category

2010s Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Blob
Located in Denver, CO
. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and the Blue Ridge as well
Category

2010s Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

The Blob
H 12 in W 18 in
Comisky Park Stadium
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Westport. Mr. Fuchs was adept at balancing art and commerce. He met the needs of mass-circulation
Category

1980s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

High Plains Drifter
Located in Denver, CO
father was a coal miner and many of my uncles and cousins worked in mining or farming. I tend to view my
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

El Romero photovoltaic plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 14 July, limited edition
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
cars, computers, and smartphones. Chile's mining industry historically depended on imported coal
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
, computers, and smartphones. Chile's mining industry historically depended on imported coal, diesel, and
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cerro Dominador concentrated solar plant, Atacama Desert, Chile, 16 July, 2017
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

#38256, 28 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

#40758, 1 September, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

#39386, 29 August, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Firing. Setting & Detonation of Explosive Charges Underground Welsh Coalminers
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea in 1986; “Mining in Art” alongside works of Josef Herman, Jack
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Young Richard Burton and His Father. Pontrhydyfen. Neath Port Talbot. Wales.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Peter Ross. English (b.1941) The Young Richard Burton and his father. Welsh Coal Mining Community
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mother with Injured Child, Forest Fields, Nottingham. Real Life. Drama.
By Paul Anthony Waplington
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
returned to work in the lace industry, doing freelance work and teaching art classes. From the 1970s he
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

"Blackwell's Island (Roosevelt Island, New York City), " George Picken, WPA Scene
By George Picken
Located in New York, NY
), 1928 Oil on canvas 22 x 27 inches Signed lower right Provenance: D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, circa
Category

1920s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA
By George Picken
Located in New York, NY
from the vibrant Paris art scene, was inspired by the radical movement known as Impressionism. Upon his
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
, particularly those engaged in coal mining and the manufacturing of steel, first manifested itself in the mid
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Illustration Board

Mable
By Charley Snow
Located in Denver, CO
Charley Snow currently lives in Helper, Utah—a small coal-mining town about 100 miles south of Salt
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Modernist Rabbi In Synagogue Judaica Watercolor Harry Sternberg
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
American workers, particularly those engaged in coal mining and the manufacturing of steel, first
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

"Shoes" - Late 20th Century City Figure Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
conveying these experiences through his paintings. He has spent time in the coal mining towns of West
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Colliery Scene, Lancashire, 20th Century British Artist, Wood Engraving
Located in London, GB
shafts sunk to gain coal number in the several thousand. Coal mining continued to be a key factor for
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Kochevars, Crested Butte
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
only one road out in the winter, the former coal mining town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Kochevars, Crested Butte
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
only one road out in the winter, the former coal mining town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Pine Camp Military area near Watertown, NY, August by Jack Delano, 1941
By Jack Delano
Located in Dallas, TX
purchased a camera and discovered his passion for documentary photography. Delano began photographing coal
Category

1940s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Blanche Grambs, Unemployed
Located in New York, NY
traveled to the Pennsylvania Coal Mines to draw and visit with mining families -- trips that made a strong
Category

1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Blanche Grambs, Waterfront, New York City
Located in New York, NY
traveled to the Pennsylvania Coal Mines to draw and visit with mining families -- trips that made a strong
Category

1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
Industrial Art and the Art Students League; her teachers included William von Schlegell, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Color

In an Iron Foundry, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1941
By Jack Delano
Located in Dallas, TX
purchased a camera and discovered his passion for documentary photography. Delano began photographing coal
Category

20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Children Playing Marbles, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
By Jack Delano
Located in Dallas, TX
documentary photography. Delano began photographing coal-mining conditions in Pennsylvania and it was these
Category

1940s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Washing Strung Between the Tenements, Dundee, Scotland, 1946
By Wolfgang Suschitzky
Located in Middletown, NY
environments of the working class. His worked as a cinematographer brought him to Britain’s coal mining
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps - Landscape - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Lagisza Power Station, Silesia, Poland; Industrial landscape - Rare Vintage
Located in London, GB
in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze as well as local government building in Duisburg in the
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper

Kenneth Gribble (1925-1995) - Mid 20th Century Gouache, Northern Colliery
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant and intriguing gouache scene by Kenneth Gribble (1925-1995), depicting a coal mine on a
Category

20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Watercolor of Houses
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
, she studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League; her teachers included William
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Still life. Watercolour and ink
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
Gallery, National Museum of Northern Ireland and the Manchester Art Gallery. Bissill was known for his
Category

1920s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Study for Old Canal, Red and Blue (Rockaway, Morris Canal)
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner was a German and an American, a trained architect who read voraciously in art theory
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

"SAAR, 1918-1935, " Rare Art Deco Relief Sculpture of Nude, Kneeling Worker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
figure, clearly representing the workers of the coal mining and manufacturing Saar region of Germany
Category

Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Iron

1890 Monumental Hugh Glazebrook Full Length Gentleman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Dayton, OH
style of Stainer & Heath. Mr. Heath subsequently leased and developed various important coal-mining and
Category

Antique 1890s Victorian Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Porcelain Schumann Arzberg Midcentury Classic Floor Vase Cobalt Blue Gold beauty
By Schumann Arzberg 1
Located in Kumhausen, DE
history After Lorenz Christof Aecker founded the first porcelain factory in 1838, the mining town of
Category

Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases

Materials

Porcelain

Original Vintage Illustrated Map Poster Schematic Map Soviet Union USSR Russia
Located in London, GB
landmarks and factories detailing the areas of USSR industries including mining, oil, coal, gas, vehicle
Category

1960s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Untitled (Rabbi with Prayer Shawl)
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
society. His interest in the plight of American workers, particularly those engaged in coal mining and the
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Pentimenti #58
By Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Located in New York, NY
Cultured crystals grown on a sandstone fragment with coal layers from a West Virginia mountaintop
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Hamilton Beach (Queens)
By Joseph Lomoff
Located in East Hampton, NY
contemporaries, he must have visited the coal mining and industrial areas in surrounding states and gained a
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled XVIII
Located in Seattle, WA
small Pennsylvania coal mining town where I grew up. My memory of interactions with a landscape locked
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite, Pigment

Untitled XV
Located in Seattle, WA
small Pennsylvania coal mining town where I grew up. My memory of interactions with a landscape locked
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite, Pigment

Sculptural abstract painting in red blue and green with repurposed materials
By Christina Massey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
" known in the coal mining areas of Pennsylvania. This was then hand stitched together with painted canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Metal, Wire

"Antidepressant", contemporary, sculpture, ceramic, yellow, black, pink
By Chris Fraticelli
Located in Santa Monica, CA
influenced by the work of his Grandpa Louie, a found object artist with a background in coal mining and
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Wood, Found Objects

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On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate piece of coal mining art for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the modern style, while we also have 20 modern versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for an item from our selection of coal mining art may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a choice in our collection of coal mining art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of brown, gray, black, green and more. Creating an object in our assortment of coal mining art has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Chris Fraticelli, Alberto Rey, Riva Helfond, Jack Delano and Harry Sternberg are consistently popular. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and wood.

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The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a piece of coal mining art in our inventory may begin at $179 and can go as high as $165,000, while the average can fetch as much as $2,800.