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Children in Joan’s studio. Photograph by Audrey Walker<br />
17 Boy in Overcoat, c.1956<br />
pastel, 49 x 35 cms<br />
exhibited<br />
Joan Eardley Exhibition, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>, Edinburgh, 1984, (Cat. 13)<br />
provenance<br />
<strong>The</strong> artist’s studio inventory (ED 684)<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y hardly notice me when <strong>the</strong>y come in, <strong>the</strong>y are full <strong>of</strong> what <strong>the</strong>y have been doing. Who has<br />
gone to jail, who has broken into what shop, who flung a pie into whose face, and so it goes… <strong>the</strong>y<br />
are letting out <strong>the</strong>ir life.<br />
“I try to think only in painterly terms – bits <strong>of</strong> red – all funny bits <strong>of</strong> colours. For me <strong>the</strong>y are<br />
Glasgow. This sort <strong>of</strong> richness that I know that Glasgow has, that I hope it always will have.”<br />
BBC recorded interview 1963, Joan Eardley speaking in reference to <strong>the</strong> Samson family,<br />
12 bro<strong>the</strong>rs and sisters that Joan got to know well and regularly drew and painted.<br />
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