Mineurs, borinag, Constantin Meunier

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1831–1905
Mineurs, borinag, 1896
Where object was made: Belgium
Material/technique: laid paper; lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 565 x 444 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22 1/4 x 17 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1989.0049
Not on display

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Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard Meunier is best known for his sculptural works devoted to the miners in the Borinage region of southern Belgium. His commanding Monument to Labor was intended as a prominent welcome to Brussels, capitol of Belgium, but, due to its socialist content, is now relegated to a square in a working-class suburb. Like the work by Pissarro exhibited here, this print was published by the anarchist journal Les Temps nouveaux [New Times] in its thirteenth album of lithographs.