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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

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 141–159 of 159 objects

Sketch of a man with pipe, leaning on elbows

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of a man in clogs, bent under a back-pack

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of a man, wife and child with dog outside house

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of ‘Scrubbing the Floor’

Josef Herman
[c.1935]
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Sketch for three men singing

Josef Herman
1949
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‘Street Ystradgynlais’

Josef Herman
1944
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Sketch of the bridge, Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
1953
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Sketch of a pony and cart

Josef Herman
1953
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Study for ‘Le dejeuner’

Josef Herman
[c1951–2]
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Sketch of a girl in hat walking past statues

Josef Herman
1950
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Sketch of a harvesting scene, man resting against a tree; two women with baskets on their heads

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of four women with tubs on their heads

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of a squatting man and a man on a donkey

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of a miner squatting underground

Josef Herman
1944
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Sketch of a street in Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a street scene; woman with barrow talking to two other women and a seated man

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of five figures on a path near Ystradgynlais

Josef Herman
date not known
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Sketch of a street scene in Paris

Josef Herman
1948
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Sketch of miners with lamp, underground

Josef Herman
date not known
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