1960-61
Oil on canvas
304.8 x 426.7 cm
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT, Sheffield
Works | 1960 to 1969 Narrative All Works in Public Collections Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Commissioned Works Birds Eye View Landscapes | Gardens Towns | Town Life | Buildings Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist
In 1960 Richard was commissioned to paint a pair of murals of "Sheffield at Play" for the entrance of the new teaching hospital in Sheffield, the Royal Hallamshire.
He created two of his largest pictures for it: "Whitby, North Yorkshire to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1960-61) and "Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1961).
He started by preparing a study for each of the paintings - "Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hosptial, Sheffield"(1960) and "Chatsworth, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield" (1960). He then had to work …
In 1960 Richard was commissioned to paint a pair of murals of "Sheffield at Play" for the entrance of the new teaching hospital in Sheffield, the Royal Hallamshire.
He created two of his largest pictures for it: "Whitby, North Yorkshire to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1960-61) and "Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1961).
He started by preparing a study for each of the paintings - "Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hosptial, Sheffield"(1960) and "Chatsworth, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield" (1960). He then had to work out how to replicate them full size. He had never learned to ‘square up’, the technique of copying an image from a smaller to larger format, so he asked his elder daughter Caroline to help him. She was studying art and had learned how to do this.
Some years later the murals were removed from the building because of redevelopment plans.
At the moment (2020) they are being held in store until suitable display places can be found for them.
See the photos below of the murals in situ. They were taken by Richard's photographer son Crispin.
The two iconic lighthouses at Whitby's harbour entrance inspired other RE paintings. Scroll through the Related section below.
The Chatsworth mural in the entrance and waiting area of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
The Whitby mural in the entrance and waiting area of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
Richard and his dog, Star, with the Whitby mural.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
Coast Scene with Rainbow (1952-53)
None of Richard’s holiday paintings survive but this ‘Coast Scene with Rainbow’ of 1953, surely harks back to his excitement at the first sight of Whitby that day
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Crown Copyright, UK
Queen of the Sea, 1911 (1954)
The Queen of the Sea,1911 painted in 1954. Richard brings to life the memory of that holiday in Whitby with hallucinatory clarity
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Royal Academy of Arts
Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play (1960-61)
Companion painting.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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