1929
Pencil on paper
121.5 x 49.5 cm
Darlington Borough Art Collection, Crown Street Art Gallery, Darlington
Works | 1920 to 1929 Drawings All Works in Public Collections Portraits Historical and Biblical References Umbrellas | Hats Animals | Birds The Art of Richard Eurich
Recto: Signed upper left: Richard; signed and dated, upper right: Eurich. 1929
Aka: Lady with a Bird [RE]; Panel of Lady with a Bird [Darlington]
Verso: Inscription in RE's hand: "The [ crossed out] Lady with a bird, Richard Eurich, 27 Coleherne Rd SW10;" ; accession label recording the source of the painting as Mrs Mcgrigor Philipps, Temple Sowerby Manor, Penrith, Dec 1952" and the title as "PANEL OF LADY WITH A BIRD"; Goupil Gallery label; a typewritten short biography of RE, with Landscape 1926 typed at the bottom and LADY WITH A BIRD handwritten in.
Other measurements: 121.5 x 49.5 cm
Crown Street Art Gallery Darlington Borough Art Collection bird female glove hair ribbon hat necklace purse women woman femaleVane Women, founded in 1991, is a writing, performing and publishing collective based in Darlington.
In 2016/17 they were invited to be part of 'Tell Her Story', supported by Creative Darlington. Curated by Michaela Wetherell, paintings from the Darlington Borough Council's collection of unknown women, some of which were by unknown artists were selected, and Vane Women were asked to look at the works to create their own writing.
S.J. Litherland, a founding member of Vane Women, wrote this poem in response to 'Lady with a Bird'.
This is one of the drawings from RE's first solo show, at the Goupil Gallery in London in 1929. Catalogue no.14.
"... I arrived back in London in the autumn, and as a final fling drew two large drawings, one of them must have been about four feet high, a single figure of a woman ..."
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