Works The Goods Train

The Goods Train

c1945

oil on panel

16.3h x 32.7w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Recto: signed lower right: R. Eurich.

Verso: labels from MOMA Wales and from the Redfern Gallery

Alternatives:
Goods Train & Cement Works [RE sales diary]

Tags:
Landscapes / Gardens
Paintings for Children
Sets
Ships / Boats / Harbours
Themes

Subject
Sea
animals
boats
cable car
cart
chalk
chimney
cows
cutting
goods wagons
groynes
hills
horse
industrial
industry
jetty
shore
train
wagons

Medium
Oil

"Within the Gibbs collection, is a small painting by Richard Eurich of a train speeding along a track, and it was this, together with the lovely notion of acquiring art for children so early in their lives, that led me to make Painting for a Child’s Bedroom.”

- Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Artlog

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 10th to 28th Apr 1945
Priced at GNS8
ACQUIRED • May 1945

purchased by Mrs Gibbs from the Redfern Gallery

EXHIBITION • 18th Sep 2004 to 16th Jan 2005

"An Art Accustomed Eye"

National Museum of Wales
EXHIBITION • 11th Sep 2010 to 8th Jan 2011

"Art for Children"

Museum of Modern Art

curated by Dr Peter Wakelin

IN COLLECTION • 2016

Private Collection (UK)

References:

Reviews

Books

  • "The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 53, pg 73]
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