Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland’s most celebrated artists, best known for her depictions of Glasgow’s street children and of Scotland’s North East coastline.
This exhibition offers the opportunity to see Eardley’s early works, for which she is lesser known in order to show the ways in which her formative time at The Glasgow School of Art and early experiences from 1940-50 informed the direction and development of her later work.
The works for this exhibition are drawn from The Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections, Lillie Art Gallery, City Art Centre, Gerber Fine Art and Joan Eardley Estate.
- Italian Farmhouse, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0065 - see this in our catalogue › - San Rufino, Assisi, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0067 - see this in our catalogue › - Italian Hill Town, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0068 - see this in our catalogue › - Bridge in Venice, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0069 - see this in our catalogue › - Mule with cart, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0071 - see this in our catalogue › - Life drawing, c1940-1945
Item: NMC/0072 - see this in our catalogue › - Life drawing, c1940-1945
Item: NMC/0073 - see this in our catalogue › - Church interior, Basilica di San Marco, Venice, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0077 - see this in our catalogue › - Figure study of seated woman, 1948-1950
Item: NMC/0079 - see this in our catalogue › - Church interior, Basilica di San Marco, Venice, 1948-1949
Item: NMC/0080 - see this in our catalogue › - Farm Wagon, Lincolnshire, 1948
Item: NMC/0084 - see this in our catalogue › - Farm Wagon, Lincolnshire, 1948
Item: NMC/0084 - see this in our catalogue › - Carts grouped under a tree, 1948
Item: NMC/0086 - see this in our catalogue › - Covered Market, Glasgow, c1945-1949
Item: NMC/0087 - see this in our catalogue › - Covered Market, Glasgow, c1945-1949
Item: NMC/0088 - see this in our catalogue › - Correspondence of William Oliphant Hutchison, Director of Glasgow School of Art, 1933-1943, 1940-1943
Item: GSAA/DIR/9/54 - see this in our catalogue › - Correspondence of Douglas Percy Bliss, Director of Glasgow School of Art 1946-64, 1947-1948
Item: GSAA/DIR/12/1/3/1 - see this in our catalogue › - Correspondence of Douglas Percy Bliss, Director of Glasgow School of Art 1946-64, 1955
Item: GSAA/DIR/12/1/11 - see this in our catalogue › - Report by Eardley 'Report on cities and places visited in Italy' (3 pages); Director response to above, 6 Jan 1949 and 19 May 1949; Eardley letter from Paris Jan 3 1949; Director response to the above 12 Sept 1949, 1949
Item: GSAA/DIR/12/1/5/8 (selected items) - see this in our catalogue › - Joan Eardley on cliff top, by George Oliver, 1960s-1990s
Item: DC 066/2/45 - see this in our catalogue › - Selection of landscapes, Catterline, by George Oliver (hardbour wall, and wheat fields), 1960s
Item: DC 066/2/47 - see this in our catalogue ›
