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...
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...