Look at our Willie's new Clothes
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Helen Bradley (1900-1979)
Look at our Willie's new Clothes
signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, dated and inscribed 'Look at Willie's new Clothes cried that dreadful Annie Murgatroyd when we met on our afternoon walk through the cemetery. Mrs Murgatroyd and Annie were also in new clothes, and since their uncle had come to live with them their mother no longer went out cleaning. When George and I caught up with their Mother, Grandma, Miss Carter (who wore pink) and the other Aunts they were all talking about Willie's Uncle and although they talked and talked about him for days, they could not remember an Uncle of the name of Edward in the family. Still he took them all to Blackpool for Lees Wakes and the year was 1907. Helen Layfield Bradley, 1971' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
13 x 16in. (33 x 40.6cm.)
Look at our Willie's new Clothes
signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, dated and inscribed 'Look at Willie's new Clothes cried that dreadful Annie Murgatroyd when we met on our afternoon walk through the cemetery. Mrs Murgatroyd and Annie were also in new clothes, and since their uncle had come to live with them their mother no longer went out cleaning. When George and I caught up with their Mother, Grandma, Miss Carter (who wore pink) and the other Aunts they were all talking about Willie's Uncle and although they talked and talked about him for days, they could not remember an Uncle of the name of Edward in the family. Still he took them all to Blackpool for Lees Wakes and the year was 1907. Helen Layfield Bradley, 1971' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
13 x 16in. (33 x 40.6cm.)
Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London, Oct. 1971, where purchased by the present owner.