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  • One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

1944–55

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Available online is a collection of drawings and watercolours by Herman. They are mostly of the people and streets of Ystradgynlais dating from 1944-1955. The collection also includes drawings made on a tour of France and Italy in 1948, and studies for major works like 'South Wales' 1951, 'Three Miners' 1953 and 'In Homage for the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto' 1945.

See also TGA 201217, a selection of digitised items from the personal papers of Josef Herman.

Collection Owner
Josef Herman 1911–2000
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to the Archive by Josef Herman, March 1983.
Reference
TGA 835

159 objects in this collection

  • One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman

    159 Objects

Title
One hundred and fifty nine drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman
Date
1944–55
Description
Available online is a collection of drawings and watercolours by Herman. They are mostly of the people and streets of Ystradgynlais dating from 1944-1955. The collection also includes drawings made on a tour of France and Italy in 1948, and studies for major works like 'South Wales' 1951, 'Three Miners' 1953 and 'In Homage for the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto' 1945.

See also TGA 201217, a selection of digitised items from the personal papers of Josef Herman.
Reference
TGA 835

Showing 61–80 of 159 objects

Sketch of a man standing in a overcoat

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of Ystradgynlais viewed from above with tip beyond

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of two miners underground

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of two miners underground

Josef Herman
[1946]
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Sketch of two women meeting

Josef Herman
[1947]
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Sketch of the road to the tip

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of the bridge in Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[1948]
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Sketch of a composition at evening

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a seated miner with baby

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a Scottish fishing village near Mallaig

Josef Herman
[1946]
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Sketch of a sheep shearer

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of two miners resting on the floor

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a woman, undated (1945, after the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto) executed in Wales

Josef Herman
[c.1945]
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Sketch of standing figures at the corner of a street

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a woman

Josef Herman
[1945]
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Sketch of a man seated, eating

Josef Herman
[1946]
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Sketch of a figure and post with horse and cart in background

Josef Herman
[1947]
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Sketch of figures and goose, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
[1946]
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Sketch of three miners (one seated)

Josef Herman
[1948]
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‘At the funeral’

Josef Herman
date not known
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