A Carter and his Horse

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

Joan Eardley was born in Sussex but moved with her family to Glasgow in 1939. She studied briefly at Goldsmiths College in London (1938-1939), completing her studies at Glasgow School of Art (1940-1943). During 1948 and 1949 she visited Paris and Italy on a scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1950 Eardley discovered the remote fishing village of Catterline, just south of Aberdeen in Scotland and began painting wild seascapes and cliff-top landscapes. For the rest of her life she divided her time between Catterline and Glasgow, where she painted the slums and tenements, as well as docksides and shipyards. Eardley was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1955 and was elected a full Academician in 1963, Eardley died from cancer aged 42.

Places

Subjects

cart, cigarette, genre, townscape/cityscape, horse, man, 20th century costume, coat

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Joan Eardley (1921 - 1963)

Title

A Carter and his Horse

Date

1952

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 70.00 cm, width: 119.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal Scottish Academy, July 1952

Inscription

br: EARDLEY

GAC number

1842