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Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson MINING, OIL AND ENERGY IN ART AND FICTION: ART: Gustave Courbet’s “Les Casseurs de pierres” / “The Stone Breakers” (1850) Original destroyed during World War II bombings of Dresden, 1945 Gustave Courbet painted this as a work of “social realism” depicting two peasants breaking rocks. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850. The original was destroyed nearly 100 years later when a transport vehicle that was moving the painting along with 154 other pieces of art was destroyed during a bomb raid by Allied Forces in 1945. Copyright: Public domain. Distributed by the Yorck Project/ DIRECTMEDIA Publishing 1 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Bill Brandt’s “Northumbrian Coal Miner Eating His Evening Meal” (1937) Bill Brandt Archive -- one of several related to documenting coal mining in Britain. Bill Brandt was a famous British photographer and photojournalist. His work focused on images related to British social life. He is widely considered one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by the Bill Brandt Archive. For inquiries about licensing images, please contact the permissions department of the archive via email: [email protected] 2 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Henry Moore’s Coal Mining Drawings, 1940-1942 Imperial War Museum, London, UK Henry Moore, a famous twentieth-century British sculptor and artist, was hired as an official war artist during WWII. In 1940 he was commissioned to make drawings of coal miners at Wheldale Colliery in Castleford. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/19452 Henry Moore, Miner at Work (1942), ink, chalk and gouache on paper, Imperial War Museum, London Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved. To inquire about copyright licensing, contact the Imperial War Museum’s Collections Sales and Licensing, Images: (Tel) +44 (0)20 7416 5309, (Email) [email protected] . For the full process involved with obtaining a copyright license, please see the following webpage: http://www.iwm.org.uk/commercial/media-sales 3 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Graham Vivian Sutherland’s “Cornish Tin Mine, Emerging Miner” (1943) Graham Sutherland Collection, National Museum, Wales Note: This museum holds a wide variety of documentary art regarding industry that is available for licensing with the appropriate permissions. Graham Vivian Sutherland was a notable British painter and artist who was hired as one of many official war artists during World War II between 1940-45. During this time, he worked mostly on the home front, capturing scenes from tin mining in Cornwall (below), as well as open cast coal mining, limestone quarrying and other subjects. https://museum.wales/3372/ Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved. For inquiries about obtaining appropriate permissions, please contact National Museum Wales: Mail: Kay Kays, National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP; (Tel) +44 (0)29 2057, ext. 3280, or submit a request via their website https://museum.wales/email/?e=519 4 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Bob Callender, Oil and Gas Fine Art Photography (2014-ongoing) Corporate photographer, Texas, US Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Bob Callender. For inquiries about purchasing or permissions, please submit a request via Callender’s website http://www.bobcallender.com/content_contact.html 5 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Alex MacLean’s “Supply+Demand= Tar Sands” (2014) *** Canadian content *** http://www.alexmaclean.com/portfolio/supply-demand--tar-sands/140406-0111/ A series of photographs taken in 2014 by acclaimed US aerial photographer Alex MacLean that captures the oil fields of Alberta from above, including images such as the one below: “Oil Skimming” of Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Alex MacLean. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact MacLean’s studio manager Kasey Walko: (Email) [email protected]; (Mail) 23 Conant Road, Lincoln MA 01773, US; (Tel) 781-259-7900 6 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Louis Helbig’s “Beautiful Destruction” (2014) *** Canadian content *** http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/beautiful-destruction-gallery/ A series of aerial photographs taken by Canadian artist Louis Helbig that depict the Albertan oil sands, including the one below “Slick Sunset” of Albian Sands Muskeg River Mine. This image and others are now apart of Helbig’s book project of the same name that includes the images alongside essays that discuss the tar sands and Canada’s energy sector. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Louis Helbig. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact Louis Helbig: (Mail) 149 Patterson Avenue, Ottawa Ontario, Canada, K1S 1YA; (Tel) 613-263-0264 or submit a request through his website http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/contact/ 7 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Louis Helbig’s “Sunken Villages” (2015-ongoing) *** Canadian content *** http://sunkenvillages.ca The most recent and ongoing project of Canadian artist Louis Helbig again uses aerial photography to capture the villages along the St. Lawrence Seaway. They were flooded with the introduction of the 1959 hydroelectric project. Still underwater, the villages have become visible after zebra mussels have clarified the waters. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Louis Helbig. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact Louis Helbig: (Mail) 149 Patterson Avenue, Ottawa Ontario, Canada, K1S 1YA; (Tel) 613-263-0264 or submit a request through his website http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/contact/ 8 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson FICTION: Richard Llewellyn, How Green was my Valley (1939) A novel by Richard Llewellyn that depicts a Welsh family and the mining community in which they lived. Although Llewellyn claimed he based the book on his own experiences, his claim was found to be untrue, with him gathering material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach, Goch. The novel won the National Book Award for favourite novel in 1940. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Penguin Random House. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact their permissions department via email at [email protected]. 9 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson James Dickey, Deliverance (1970) A novel by James Dickey that was adapted into a widely acclaimed film of the same name two years later. It tells the story of four businessmen who decide to take a risky canoe trip through remote northern Georgia wilderness before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded upon the construction of a hydroelectric damn. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, owned by Riverdeep PLC Inc. For inquiries about copyright licensing, please contact Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Permissions Department (Mail) 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10016, (Email) [email protected] 10 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven (1987) The second novel of Giardina that depicts the “West Virginia Mine Wars” between 1890-1921 when miners were fighting to be unionized, near the West Virginia- Kentucky border. The novel won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year. Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Ivy Books, a division of Ballantine Books, now owned by Penguin Random House. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact their permissions department via email at [email protected] 11 Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Mining, Oil & Energy Researcher: Beth A. Robertson Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth (1994) The third novel of Giardina that depicts two cousins who are romantically involved. The novel tells their experiences in witnessing the changes within the community in which they grew up near the border of West Virginia and Kentucky from 1930 to the 1990s. The changes are largely a result of a large coal mining company establishing itself