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Our last picnic at Blackpool
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Helen Bradley (1900-1979)
Our last picnic at Blackpool
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left)and inscribed 'Our last week at Blackpool: It was/just what we wished for. The sun/shone every day, the corn had turned/golden, and the hay was dried and gathered/in. Mother, the Aunts, Miss Carter (who wore pink)/and I could wear our pretty muslins, but,/alas, we couldnt go out in the car (Esmarelda)/because petrol was so hard to get. We had/only just enough to get us home, also, Poor/old Prince had died in the Spring, but, we had Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager) here to help/us carry our picnic out to the fields./Although we were very anxious about/the war and the difficulties in getting food/,and supplies for our business, Grandpa said/Enjoy this week, and fill our lungs with/the fresh sea air to help us through the winter./We all went home refreshed and the year/was 1917.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
25¼ x 31¾ in. (64.1 x 80.7 cm.)
Our last picnic at Blackpool
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left)and inscribed 'Our last week at Blackpool: It was/just what we wished for. The sun/shone every day, the corn had turned/golden, and the hay was dried and gathered/in. Mother, the Aunts, Miss Carter (who wore pink)/and I could wear our pretty muslins, but,/alas, we couldnt go out in the car (Esmarelda)/because petrol was so hard to get. We had/only just enough to get us home, also, Poor/old Prince had died in the Spring, but, we had Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager) here to help/us carry our picnic out to the fields./Although we were very anxious about/the war and the difficulties in getting food/,and supplies for our business, Grandpa said/Enjoy this week, and fill our lungs with/the fresh sea air to help us through the winter./We all went home refreshed and the year/was 1917.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
25¼ x 31¾ in. (64.1 x 80.7 cm.)
Provenance
The Artist's Studio, no. 46A.
with W.H. Patterson Fine Art, London.
with W.H. Patterson Fine Art, London.
Exhibited
London, W.H. Patterson Fine Art, Helen Bradley, June 1979, no. 14, illustrated.
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