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...
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...
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...
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...
