Schooner Johanna at Poole on a Wet Day
1937
oil on canvas
30.5h x 61w (cm)
- Letter to Richard from graphic designer, typographer, novelist and editor of House and Garden magazine Robert Harling (1910-2006)House and Garden Magazine
2nd May 1980Dear Richard Eurich
Having found so much pleasure in your show at the Fine Art Society (and refreshed again by Frank Davis's notes in this week's Country Life) I am prompted to write to you to thank you for the years of pleasure I have derived from two of your paintings I bought as a young man and which have delighted me ever since.
I bought my first Eurich painting - of a grey schooner lying alongside the quay at Poole harbour - from the Mayor Gallery (could it have been?) forty years ago. A lovely picture which I hope you recall. Then, a year or so later, I bought a lovely painting of a Yorkshire coble with the Whitby markings drawn up on the beach (from the Redfern I seem to recall). They have been the joy of my eyeballs. I even took the first one to sea with me during the war.
I have since bought other paintings you have done, but bless the day I bought that particular pair. More than anything else in one's life I think the paintings one buys in one's youth keep fresh those days throughout life.
As a peacetime and wartime sailor I have long collected paintings of the sea - Wadsworth, Ravilious and so on - but none has given me more pleasure than I have enjoyed from that pair. I thought the artist ought to know.
Robert Harling
EDITOR
