Glasgow Boy

Location

Country: Other
City: looted or destroyed

Destroyed or looted in revolution, Bucharest, Romania, December 1989

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

Places

Subjects

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Joan Eardley (1921 - 1963)

Title

Glasgow Boy

Date

c.1952-1954

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 45.00 cm, width: 34.00 cm

Inscription

br: EARDLEY

GAC number

2660