The first depicting two miners with a cross cut saw, crayon and Perma pen on paper, signed and dated 1981 at lower right (Frame dimensions 10 x 11 3/4 in.); the second depicting a train car with figures, Perma pen on paper, signed and dated 1985 at lower right (Frame dimensions 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); and the third depicting a steam engine with miners at a RR crossing, Perma pen on paper, signed and dated 1985 at lower right (Frame dimensions 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.). Each presented under Plexiglass with matching acrylic frames.

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

John Savitsky, also known as "Coal Miner Jack," was a coal miner around Lansford, Pennsylvania for over forty years. During his free time, he would paint signs for windows and trucks, as well as murals for local speakeasies. He was diagnosed with "black lung" in his fifties, and since he could no longer work in the mines, he took to painting full time. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Slight fading; not examined out of the frames.