December, Work Suspended - Richard Eurich (1903-1992)

Oil on canvas
101.6 x 127 cm

Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire

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Recto: Signed and dated lower left: R EURICH. 1940.

Aka: December, Work Suspended; Home for Christmas [charity card 2019]

Other measurements: 101.6 x 127 cm [Millais Gallery]; 40 x 50 in, 101.5 x 127 cms [Bradford, 1979; and Southampton]

Ferens Art Gallery Vine chandler architecture berthed bonfire brazier buidlings clock tower cold crane dark grey sky figures flames furled sails goods wagons harbour hills ladder lifeboat oar pipe railway line rope rowing boat sailing ship sea smoking snow supply boat tall ship timber warehouses winter

Painted early in 1940 and not long before Eurich became an Official War Artist for the Admiralty, this bleak and wintry harbour scene (again an imagined place) seems to sum up the mood of anxious waiting of the phony war with a quiet intensity of feeling.

Nicholas Usherwood from ‘The Edge of All the Land’ 1994

Provenance:

ACQUIRED - 1940 - Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire
Accession Number: KINCM:2005.4921

Exhibitions:

6th May to 10th Aug 1940 - "Summer Exhibition 1940", Royal Academy of Arts, London
Cat 227
1st Jun to 26th Aug 1951 - "RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS by RICHARD EURICH, A.R.A.", City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Cat 23 - lent by the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Hull
25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980 - "Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition", Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)
Cat 24
28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994 - "The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)
Cat 27, illustrated

Notes:

None recorded.

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References:

The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 34, pg 50]
Art UK [artuk.org]
“Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 27]
Bridgeman Images [Art and media image library] [view image]
“Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist” (Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin (contributions by James Hyman, David McCann and Peyton Skipwith), pub. 2003: Paul Holberton Publishing, ISBN 1903470110) [Cat 25, illustrated but not exhibited]
Ferens Art Gallery [Collection record]
Richard Eurich: Artist Without a Style (by Donald Pittenger, pub. Art Contrarian (blog))
Art UK Curations 3 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
Art UK Curations 1 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [Winter wonderland, Ferens Art Gallery Hull | curated by Ferens Art Gallery]
Art UK Curations 2 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [A Year through Art: December | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]