Eardley, Joan

General Information

She was born in Sussex but her mother was from Glasgow and the family moved to Bearsden in 1939. She studied at Glasgow School of Art where she was awarded the Guthrie Prize for portraiture and 2 travelling scholarship which she used to travel to Italy and France. She gained critical acclaim for her paintings of Glasgow street scenes and local children.

On View

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Visitors Forum

Hello there, I am a researcher working for Hopscotch Films in Glasgow and we would love to speak to any of Joan Eardley\'s Samson models. We are making a programme for BBC Scotland about \'The Films of Scotland\' documentary collection and one of these films was about Joan Eardley. PLease email me on dhivya@hopscotchfilms.co.uk or telephone 0141 440 6740
Dhivya Chetty - 2010-03-02

Hi, my dad actually owns one of Joan Eardley\'s pastels of Glasgow street kids. He bought it from her sister just after her death and it really is beautiful. He loaned in to the National Gallery in Edinburgh last year for the Joan Eardley exhibition.
m fairley - 2009-07-07

My mother and two uncles (Margaret, Alan and Billy Livingstone) knew the Samsons and Joan Eardley, and my mother and one of my uncles sat for her "Brother and Sister" painting. Coincidently, my mother left Glasgow in her teens to live in London before emigrating to Australia, and ultimately returning to London.

Suzi Livingstone - 2006-09-24

i am one of the samson children which Joan Eardly painted in the 1950 and was going through the internet when i came across some of the works of joan

ann mc kenna - 2006-06-06

I AM ANDREW SAMSON I SAT FOR SEVERAL OF JOANS PAININGS IN THE FIFTIES. INCLUDING "BOY WITH A COMIC" AND "ANDREW" I NOW LIVE IN BARNARD CASTLE A SMALL MARKET TOWN IN CO DURHAM I AM 64 YEARS OLD MARRIED WITH TWO DAUGHTERS AND FOUR GRAND CHILDERN,A QUESTION I AM OFTEN ASKED IS HOW MUCH I WAS PAID FOR SITTING,I GOT SIXPENCE (OLD MONEY) AND IN THE BOY WITH A COMMIC AS MUCH BREAD AND SYRYP AND CHEESE SANDWICHES THAT I COULD EAT.

andrew samson - 2006-04-16

hi one of the street kids now living in melbourne ozz

what ever happened to the painting of the glasgow boy

which im sure i sat for in the earley to mid fifties ?

jim samson
jim samson - 2005-03-30