Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © Ferens Art Gallery

December, Work Suspended

1940

oil on canvas

101.6h x 127w (cm)

Ferens Art Gallery

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Ladders

Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist

RA Summer Exhibitions

The Art of Richard Eurich

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

Alternatives:

Home for Christmas [charity card 2019]

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Bicycles / Ladders

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

Motifs

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Subject

Ferens Art Gallery

Figures

Pipe

Sea

Snow

Vine chandler

architecture

berthed

bonfire

brazier

buidlings

clock tower

cold

crane

dark grey sky

flames

furled sails

goods wagons

harbour

hills

ladder

lifeboat

oar

railway line

rope

rowing boat

sailing ship

smoking

supply boat

tall ship

timber

warehouses

winter

Medium

Oil

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 & Events

EXHIBITION • 6th May to 10th Aug 1940

"Summer Exhibition 1940"

Royal Academy of Arts

Cat 227

ACQUIRED • 1940

Ferens Art Gallery

Accession Number: KINCM:2005.4921

SOLO SHOW • 1st Jun to 26th Aug 1951

"RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS by RICHARD EURICH, A.R.A."

City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall

Cat 23 - lent by the Corporation of Kingston-upon-Hull

SOLO SHOW • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 24

SOLO SHOW • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

"The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992"

Southampton City Art Gallery

Cat 27, illustrated

References:

Catalogues

"Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994)"; Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood. [Figure 27]

Books

"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]
"The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 34, pg 50]

Collections

"Ferens Art Gallery"; [Collection record]

Reviews

"Richard Eurich: Artist Without a Style"; by Donald Pittenger, pub. Art Contrarian (blog)

Other

"Bridgeman Images"; [view image]
"Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
"Art UK Curations 2"; [A Year through Art: December | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
"Art UK Curations 1"; [Winter wonderland, Ferens Art Gallery Hull | curated by Ferens Art Gallery]