Eardley and the Samsons on Radio 4

Eardley and the Samsons on Radio 4

On BBC Radio 4 on 11 April 2023, Audrey Gillan meets the ‘Samson girls’ of Joan Eardley’s paintings who have come to represent a certain image of Glasgow in the postwar years before urban development. As the 50s turned to the 60s, a family of twelve...
Eardley at the Hunterian

Eardley at the Hunterian

Joan Eardley, Seated Boy, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. © The Eardley Estate. Seated Boy by Joan Eardley is one of three works by Joan Eardley now on display at the Hunterian in Glasgow after the gallery opened its doors on a complete rehang.  On...
Eardley Painting Sells For Record Price At Auction

Eardley Painting Sells For Record Price At Auction

JOAN EARDLEY R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1921-1963) THE YELLOW JUMPER – Image by Alex Robson for Lyon & Turnbull One of the last finished paintings of Glasgow’s street children by celebrated Anglo-Scottish artist, Joan Eardley, has sold for £200,200 (including...
RARE PAINTING TO GO UNDER HAMMER

RARE PAINTING TO GO UNDER HAMMER

Alice Strang, Associate Director and Senior Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art at Lyon and Turnbull with Joan Eardley’s The Yellow Jumper. One of the last finished paintings of Glasgow’s street children by celebrated Scottish artist, Joan Eardley, is set to go...
WATCH |The Yellow Jumper

WATCH |The Yellow Jumper

Joan Eardley’s ‘The Yellow Jumper’ with Alice Strang Film by Lyon and Turnbull The Yellow Jumper of 1963 is an outstanding example of Eardley’s paintings of the children of Townhead. As Patrick Elliott has pointed out, it was in the mid-1950s that...