HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Going Home Through Alexandra Park
signed with a fly (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Going home through the park on a Winter's Evening./George, I, Mother, Grandma and the dogs (Gyp & Barney)/went to meet aunt Frances & aunt Charlotte in/the Park. They had already met Miss Carter (who wore Pink) and the three ladies were skating/along when they saw Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager)./"How kind dear Mr Taylor is" said mother to Grandma, "but look isn't that the Rev Albert Green walking/across the lee towards Charlotte & she's turning/towards him"-"I wonder if anything will come of it,"/but George & I had something much more interesting/to think about, all the ducks came across the ice/asking for food, and all the Japanese lanterns/were lit and everything looked like Fairyland &/the year was 1907./ Helen Layfield Bradley 1970' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas laid on board
24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1970.