A Lost Eardley Returns

A Lost Eardley Returns

Fragments of the label found on the reverse of the painting.  As the National Galleries of Scotland opens Joan Eardley – The Nature of Painting at Modern Two, a remarkable rediscovery has brought one of her paintings back into public view more than sixty years...
Early Eardley: selected works 1940-1950

Early Eardley: selected works 1940-1950

Joan Eardley, Covered Market, Glasgow, (c1945-1949) NMC/0087 In the collection of GSA Archives & Collections © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023 ‘Early Eardley: selected works 1940-1950’Reid Gallery and Window on HeritageReid...
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...