Catterline in Winter
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (Warnham 1921 – Killearn 1963)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1960 - 1963
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
1035 x 1137 mm
Place of origin
Scotland
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769780
Summary
Oil painting on board, Catterline in Winter, by Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (Warnham 1921 – Killearn 1963). An expressive oil on board painting of Catterline, a village on the North Sea Aberdeenshire coast, depicted in winter, probably at dusk. A field in the foreground at left with two people in the foreground at centre braced against an icy wind, walking towards the village. The row of buildings at centre included Eardley's own studio and lodgings. The artist lived and worked at Catterline from the early 1950s, dividing her time between the Scottish North East and her studio in the Townhead district of Glasgow. Exhibited 1964, ‘Joan Eardley RSA, 1921-1963’, Scottish Arts Council Memorial Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow and The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, no. 94.
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)
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
