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

Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield

1960

oil on board

69h x 101w (cm)

Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities

Animals | Birds

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Birds Eye View

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Commissioned Works

Recto: not signed or dated

Verso: inscribed, Whitby - Study for mural in teaching hospitals, Sheffield Richard Eurich. R.A. "; torn label inscribed " Eurich OBE 61903 [FAS?]"

Alternatives:

Whitby [Ash Barn]

Tags:

Animals / Birds

Birds Eye View

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

England

Gatherings / Festivities

Motifs

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The North

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Whitby

Yorkshire

Subject

Dog

abbey

bridge

carousel

cows

crowds

fairground

houses

lighthouses

masted ship

pier

promenade

road

rowing boat

ruins

sailing ship

ships

station

steam train

tall ship

tents

three master

tourists

Medium

Oil

This work is the study for one of two murals Richard was commissioned to do in the early 1960s to hang in the entrance and waiting area of the newly built Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield - "Whitby, North Yorkshire to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1960-61) and "Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play" (1961).

He started the project by painting studies for both murals "Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hosptial, Sheffield"(1960) and "Chatsworth, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield" (1960).

The murals were removed from the building some years ago because of redevelopment plans. At the moment (2020) they are being held in store until suitable display places can be found for them.

- REP

The present work is a study for Richard Eurich’s first mural commission for the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield (the Royal Hallamshire Hospital). Although highly finished, this study bears notations, squaring, and a few stray pencil marks. His daughter, Caroline, who was an art student at the time, remembers assisting her father in squaring this work for transfer. Eurich had a special fondness for Whitby, which appeared more than once in his works. He has here taken an unusual high vantage point over the town and harbour and flattened the picture plane in a similar way to his earlier painting ‘Gay Lane’.

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