Cornfields, September
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (Warnham 1921 – Killearn 1963)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1945 - c. 1955
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
250 x 210 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769742
Summary
Oil painting on board, Cornfields, September by Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (Warnham 1921 – Killearn 1963), signed in red paint bottom right 'EARDLEY'. An early autumnal cornfield with rolling landscape beyond, depicted in September, at an unidentified location. Exhibited 1954, ‘Six Young Painters’, Parsons Gallery, London; 1963, ‘Artists as Collectors’, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries, London, July 1963.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust for display at Mottisfont Abbey by Derek Hill through the National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996.
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom right: EARDLEY
Makers and roles
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (Warnham 1921 – Killearn 1963), artist
References
Hill 1964: Derek Hill, ‘A Tribute to Joan Eardley’, Apollo, 1 May 1964, p. 419 Oliver 1988: Cordelia Oliver, Joan Eardley, RSA: A Biography, Edinburgh 1988 Pearson and Stevenson 2007, 2019: Fiona Pearson and Sara Stevenson, Joan Eardley, exh.cat. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 2007, reprint edition 2019 Andreae 2013: Christopher Andreae, Joan Eardley, London 2013 Peploe 2015: Guy Peploe, Joan Eardley n Context, exh.cat. The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2015 Jansen and Peploe 2017: Christina Jansen and Guy Peploe, Joan Eardley, Restless Talent, exh.cat. The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2017
