1934-5
Oil on canvas
86.4 x 130.8 cm
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Recto: Signed lower right: R. Eurich
Aka: Robin Hood's Bay [Beaverbrook]; Robin Hood’s Town [NEAC, Redfern, Goupil];
Robin Hood's Bay The North Yorkshire Beaverbrook Art Gallery Canada architecture beached boats building crowd fishing boat harbour mast model sailing boat steps topographical viewRichard writes in his sales diary about Robin Hood's Town:
Purchased by Smith Rouse le Rouse for Johannesburg but seems to be in Canada!"
He added this note to the diary later in his life and we wonder if he was thinking of another work that did go to South Africa - Red Roofs, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire (1938).
Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime (1940)
Image ©
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947 (CC BY-NC-ND)
The painting published in colour in the Christmas issue of Arts Review 1935.
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