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My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
signed ‘HELEN BRADLEY’ and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'In March 1915 our traveller was called up,/Father arrived home distraught. "I'm beginning/to think we shall have to close our business"/he said. Then he saw me, "First thing tomorrow you/start work, you'll need a much longer skirt and a good/tweed jacket." The next day I took over a horse called/Gertie and started on my travels, Father said I was/to go to Middleton, and Gertie would take me, he also/said Gertie knows all the shops and all the streets so/off you go, but, I still hadn't found Middleton and it/was twelve o'clock. Me, Gertie, the trap full of parcels were/lost. Luckily I found a policeman. "Well, Miss, you're a/long way off, but turn right and keep on." How hard we/all worked and, although everyone said the War would/be over by Christmas - it went on and on - the year was/ March 1915.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
signed ‘HELEN BRADLEY’ and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'In March 1915 our traveller was called up,/Father arrived home distraught. "I'm beginning/to think we shall have to close our business"/he said. Then he saw me, "First thing tomorrow you/start work, you'll need a much longer skirt and a good/tweed jacket." The next day I took over a horse called/Gertie and started on my travels, Father said I was/to go to Middleton, and Gertie would take me, he also/said Gertie knows all the shops and all the streets so/off you go, but, I still hadn't found Middleton and it/was twelve o'clock. Me, Gertie, the trap full of parcels were/lost. Luckily I found a policeman. "Well, Miss, you're a/long way off, but turn right and keep on." How hard we/all worked and, although everyone said the War would/be over by Christmas - it went on and on - the year was/ March 1915.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Provenance
with W.H. Patterson, London, where purchased by the present owners' father.
Exhibited
London, W. H. Patterson, Summer Exhibition of Helen Bradley, June 1979, n.p., no. 12, illustrated.
Brought to you by
Charlie Campbell-Gray
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