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Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Whitby in Wartime

1940

oil on canvas

63.5h x 76w (cm)

National Maritime Museum

Narrative
Official War Artist
Wartime
Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports
Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Commissioned Works
Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist
All Works in NEAC Exhibitions 1927 to 1992
The Art of Richard Eurich

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

Verso: signed and dated: R. Eurich 1940

Alternatives:
Fishing Boats at Whitby Bay [IWM]
Fishing Mules, Whitby [RE diary]
Whitby [NEAC]
Fishing Boats at Whitby in War Time [book 'War Pictures by British Artists']

Tags:
All Works in Public Collections
Commissioned Works
England
Narrative
Official War Artist
Seascapes / Coastal Scenes
Sets
Ships / Boats / Harbours
The North
Themes
Wartime
Whitby
Yorkshire

Subject
Bird
Figures
NMM
National Maritime Museum
Sea
WW2
WWII
World War 2 World War II
berthed
breakers
breakwater
bucket
choppy sea
fish
fisherman
fishing boat
gun
harbour
life buoy
lighthouses
masts
men
public collection
rifle
rope
seagull
war
war artist
wartime

Medium
Oil

This painting was RE's first wartime commission for the Admiralty, together with 'Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime'.

- REP / PC

"At Whitby looking at fishing boat . . .  one stuck on mud and great effort to free her."

- RE diary - 9 April 1940

"Started work on 1st painting for the Admiralty (25x30) Finished 13th May: “Fishing Mules, Whitby' "

- RE diary - 27 April 1940

Provenance & Events

ACQUIRED • 1940

bought by the Ministry of Information

For £35
EXHIBITION • December 1940

"British War Artists"

National Gallery
EXHIBITION • 24th Feb to 18th Mar 1945

"New English Art Club 96th Exhibition (Spring)"

Royal Academy Galleries

Cat 10; attribution to this exhibition is uncertain

GIFTED • c1947

National Maritime Museum

by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC1573

SOLO SHOW • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992
SOLO SHOW • 20th Mar to 29th May 2004
EXHIBITION • 1st Mar to 30th Apr 2022

References:

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 [Figure 13 in catalogue, not exhibited]
  • "William Rothenstein & Richard Eurich - WAR ARTISTS"; Colin Neville, Not Just Hockney, 2021 [pg 11]
  • "The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 35, pg 51]
  • "War Pictures by British Artists - War at Sea"; Sir Herbert Richmond [Introduction], pub. Oxford University Press, 1942 [Plate 34]

Reviews

  • "Poet of the Beach"; Peyton Skipwith, Country Life, 19 September 2020 [pg 144]

Archive

Collections

Other

  • "Art UK Curations 3"; [The Great British Coastline Art Tour: Yorkshire | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]

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