Pit Boys at Pithead Mini Print by Henry MooreMini print depicting Henry Moore's Pitboys at Pit Head (1942), part of the Wakefield Permanent Art Collection. In the early 1940s Moore was commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark, chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee, to illustrate the work of the Bevin Boys, the young men who were conscripted to dig coal to fuel the factories producing armaments for the war effort. Moore returned to Wheldale Colliery in Castleford where his father had been pit