Joan Eardley’s Glasgow children

Spotlight display at the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow looking a portrait of David Samson by Joan Eardley and other pictures she painted of his family and the area in which he lived.

She captures a community in the 1950s at the point at which it is going to disappear with tower block replacing the tenements.

The picture of David shows him in a grey coat which is much too big for him and held together by a belt. I loved “Girl with Baby in Blue” which showed the real tenderness between a child and the brother or sister she was looking after.

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