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

The Red Engine

1943

oil on panel

22h x 30w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Paintings for Children

Landscapes | Gardens

Umbrellas | Hats

Recto: signed lower left: R. Eurich; dated lower right: 1943; inscribed lower right: To Paul

Alternatives:

Little Red Engine [the collector]

22h x 30w [REP]

Tags:

Landscapes / Gardens

Motifs

Paintings for Children

Sets

Themes

Umbrellas / Hats

Subject

Cat

Hammer

LMS

Pipe

bowler hat

boy

churns

coal

coal tender

fields

hills

industry

locomotive

newspaper

reading

smoke

spout

station

steam

train

water tower

Medium

Oil

27th October 1943: “Painted small picture of red engine in a country station for Paul Bielby for Christmas. A great success with Crispin who says it is the best painting I have done. This gives rise to an idea. Throughout the winter it would be a good corrective to paint a number of small paintings for children, and suggest a show at the Redfern Gallery.”

- RE diary

Andrew quotes R.E.'s letter to Schiff on this subject: "I have always wanted to indulge in free fancy and humour occasionally and this seems to be a good way of liberating it, besides giving a freedom and opening up ideas in more serious work... And I know what amazing pleasure it gave me as a small boy when my grandmother gave me a picture, I could hardly believe it was really for me, to hang in my own room. No one else had dreamed of giving me such a thing, and I believe the gift of paintings to children might have a lifelong effect for good."

- Andrew Lambirth 'The Art of Richard Eurich'