A Field by the Sea - Summer
Artist: Eardley, Joan Kathleen Harding, RSA · 1921-1963
painted in the clifftop cornfields at Catterline. Cordelia Oliver in her 1988 monograph (Mainstream) writes (p.76); "No.18 with its spare room and mod cons was her hom efrom then on, but her affection for No.1 remained, and she kept it as her studio and store, for behind it lay those fields of oats and barley, humming with insects above the wild flowers and grasses in summer, and in wintewr, bleak with snow and ice on the stubble. 'I've got a serie sof paintings going at the end of my old cottage', Joan wrote to Margot [Sandeman] in 1962. 'I never seem to find that I want to move. It's a handy spot as no-one comes near and I can work away undisturbed. I just go from one painting to another - just the grasses and the corn - it's oats this year, barley it wa slast year. There's a wee, windblown tree, and that's all. But every day and every week it looks a bit different - the flowers come and the corn grows so it seems silly to shift about.I just leave my painting table out here, and my easel and palette.'"
© The Artist's Estate
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Object data
Date 1961 Accession 2006.036 Type Painting Paint, oil Materials Support hardboard
Medium Paint, oilDimensions Support
122.2cm x 183cm
Sight
90.5cm x 101.4cm
Frame
97.5cm x 108.3cmAcquisition Purchase, Thorburn Ross Memorial Fund (1962) -
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