1952
Oil on canvas
76 x 63.5 cm
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries
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Recto: Signed and dated lower left: R Eurich. 1952.
Verso: New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition, 1986 label cat no 235; Arts Council exhibition label 'Three exhibitions about painting , 1983, 2 Movement, 18; label showing previous exhibitions RA 1952 (621) and FAS 1977 (4); Arthur Tooth label; label with Provenance indicated as: the artist; purchased from Arthur Tooth and Sons 1971 by Jean . . . [the surname has been cut off]
Other measurements: 76 x 63.5 [Bradford]; 74 x 61 cm [REP]
Bradford England Yorkshire Bradford Art Gallery Bradford Museums and Galleries Cartwright Hall Art Gallery ambiguous baby balcony bicycle bike boys bucket carriage cermony child children children's games chimney chimney sweep cobbles drunk figure games gas light gaslight girls hand cart hill hills hobby horse horse and cart landscape male man men oil painting painting parasol policeman post box postbox pram public collection pushchair skipping strange surreal toy sailing boat traditions festivities gatherings umbrellas urbanFrom Richard Eurich's correspondence with Caroline Krzesinska, "Richard Eurich RA - A Retrospective Exhibition" catalogue 1979-80; entry 50.
Gay Lane (Ilkley) used to figure in Police News a good deal but I transferred it to something more like Bradford.
We have discovered (Oct 2022) that the Gay Lane Richard refers to above was probably not in Ilkley but just down the road in Otley.
On Sunday afternoon 11 November 2012, The Cartwright Gallery in Bradford staged a salon event as part of their 'Games in the Park' exhibition. Titled 'Childhood Memories of Light and Shade', the event celebrated childhood and children's games with particular reference to the picture ‘Gay Lane’ by Richard Eurich. 'Gay Lane' is part of the Cartwright Hall collection and was a centrepiece to the exhibition. Richard was born in Bradford and spent all his early life there.
Organised by Nima Poovaya-Smith the salon involved an illustrated talk by the artist’s daughters Caroline Martin and Philippa Bambach and poems performed by …
On Sunday afternoon 11 November 2012, The Cartwright Gallery in Bradford staged a salon event as part of their 'Games in the Park' exhibition. Titled 'Childhood Memories of Light and Shade', the event celebrated childhood and children's games with particular reference to the picture ‘Gay Lane’ by Richard Eurich. 'Gay Lane' is part of the Cartwright Hall collection and was a centrepiece to the exhibition. Richard was born in Bradford and spent all his early life there.
Organised by Nima Poovaya-Smith the salon involved an illustrated talk by the artist’s daughters Caroline Martin and Philippa Bambach and poems performed by Rommi Smith, Adam Strickson, John Siddique & Raj ‘Silverfinger’ Matharu with vocals by Christella Litras. Other work on display was by Balraj Khanna, Tim Smith and Hashmi.
Rommi Smith's poem was titled Childhood: Another Country. She explained in an email to Philippa, "Your father's painting, Gay Lane, inspires much of the poem, but particularly, poem II in the triptych. I took inspiration from the colour and imagery of his painting. I imagined this was a street in a milling town, hence the line about spinning gold thread from shoddy cloth. This line is also a reference to the ability, I observe, of children to try make good from painful or difficult things re; the image of the drunk man being led away [ almost, off stage, I imagined] and out of the main 'scene' of the painting."
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