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'The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended'
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Helen Bradley (1900-1979)
'The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended'
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated
''The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended' sang the/Ladies of the Leesfield Mothers Union at/the end of their outing to Rosethorne Mere/in Cheshire. It had been a beautiful/day with a good tea of home cured Ham/and homemade bread and cakes in plenty./George & I gathered flowers to take back &/it seemed such a pity to see Mrs Maitland/weeping after such a good time, but, I heard/Grandma remark that she was just silly/and sentimental and it was time she stopped/feeling sorry for herself. Her husband had been/dead at least five years and she was always/curbing poor Emily who would never have a /chance if her mother didn't pull herself together./and the year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley 1969' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20 x 36 in. (51 x 91.5 cm.)
'The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended'
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated
''The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended' sang the/Ladies of the Leesfield Mothers Union at/the end of their outing to Rosethorne Mere/in Cheshire. It had been a beautiful/day with a good tea of home cured Ham/and homemade bread and cakes in plenty./George & I gathered flowers to take back &/it seemed such a pity to see Mrs Maitland/weeping after such a good time, but, I heard/Grandma remark that she was just silly/and sentimental and it was time she stopped/feeling sorry for herself. Her husband had been/dead at least five years and she was always/curbing poor Emily who would never have a /chance if her mother didn't pull herself together./and the year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley 1969' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20 x 36 in. (51 x 91.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale; Christie's London, 10 June 1988, lot 171, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
H. Bradley, And Miss Carter Wore Pink, London, 1971, p. 20 (illustrated in colour).