Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — Photo: Image courtesy of Paisnel Gallery, London.

Snow Shower over Skyreholme

1973

oil on board

45.7h x 61w (cm)

Private Collection

Animals | Birds

Landscapes | Gardens

The Art of Richard Eurich

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich.'73

Verso: inscribed "Snow Shower over Skyreholme", and Arthur Tooth label

Alternatives:

Snow Shower over Skyreholm []

Tags:

Animals / Birds

England

Landscapes / Gardens

Skyreholme

The North

Themes

Weather / Storm / Wind / Rain / Snow

Yorkshire

Subject

Goldfinch

barbed wire

dales

dry stone wall

fields

grain

heather

hills

moor

moorland

mountain

style

summer

wheat

Medium

Oil

"Much more straightforward - although no less important - is Richard Eurich’s Snow Shower Over Skyreholme (1973). Eurich’s landscapes are possessed with an unrivaled lyrical realism, although the compositions often have a pleasingly eerie edge to them. So it is with this brooding painting of the deserted Yorkshire Dales, an outstanding example of his later work."

- from Paisnel Gallery website

The name 'Skyreholme', a hamlet in Wharfedale close to Appletreewick (from which the Eurichs took the name of their Hampshire house), comes from Old Norse and means 'bright water-meadow'. The lush green patchwork in the middle of this painting suggests just such a fertile terrain, with which the bracken-pink hillside above contrasts tellingly, crowned by the dark and boldly brushed outline of the forested summit. This landscape is by no means empty or threatening: besides the traces of man's presence (metal fence posts and drystone walling), a solitary goldfinch is perched on the wall, near the centre at the bottom edge. Its bright plumage is a point of lyrical joy and sets the emotional timbre of the whole picture.

- Andrew Lambirth ‘The Art of Richard Eurich'

See how this work is tied together in the mind of one of Richard's daughters with another 1973 painting The Epiphany.

- REP / PC

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 9th to 27th Oct 1973

"Richard Eurich, Recent Paintings"

Arthur Tooth & Sons

Cat 27

ACQUIRED • 1973

bought by M Palmer from Tooth's

For £600

IN COLLECTION • [date unknown]

in private collection and passed on by descent until 2003

WITH • [date unknown]

the Paisnel Gallery, London

EXHIBITION • May 2012

"20th Century British Art"

Paisnel Gallery

ACQUIRED • 2012

bought from the Paisnel Gallery, London

IN COLLECTION • 2021

Private Collection

References:

Books

"The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 106, pg 127]

Related Works

The Epiphany (1973)