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Hurrying Summer
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
Hurrying Summer
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'Hurrying Summer./Twas April with her changing showers/yet ere we can say[...] nay/Tis May/Hurrying through those golden hours/listening to the Blackbird's tune/Tis June./oh let us pause and see the flowers/and watch the swift winged Dragonfly/For - Tis July./Working away through out of door hours/To harvest the golden grain, we must/Tis August./Yet before Winter do come upon us/We have something lovely to remember/Tis Golden September/This is April and coming home from/Great Aunt Janes who lived up Springhead,/it suddenly began to poor with rain,/and it really did rain, but, we'd/got to the bottom of the hill, and to/the beginning of the houses in Milking/Green, that Mother, Grandma and the/Aunts didn't worry because, when/the kind lady called to us, to come in/and shelter, Mother said, "It is only an/April shower and will soon be over, Thank/you," and there behind us was an April/Rainbow, and the year was 1907.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and gouache
14 5/8 x 21 7/8 in. (37.2 x 55.6 cm.)
Hurrying Summer
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'Hurrying Summer./Twas April with her changing showers/yet ere we can say[...] nay/Tis May/Hurrying through those golden hours/listening to the Blackbird's tune/Tis June./oh let us pause and see the flowers/and watch the swift winged Dragonfly/For - Tis July./Working away through out of door hours/To harvest the golden grain, we must/Tis August./Yet before Winter do come upon us/We have something lovely to remember/Tis Golden September/This is April and coming home from/Great Aunt Janes who lived up Springhead,/it suddenly began to poor with rain,/and it really did rain, but, we'd/got to the bottom of the hill, and to/the beginning of the houses in Milking/Green, that Mother, Grandma and the/Aunts didn't worry because, when/the kind lady called to us, to come in/and shelter, Mother said, "It is only an/April shower and will soon be over, Thank/you," and there behind us was an April/Rainbow, and the year was 1907.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and gouache
14 5/8 x 21 7/8 in. (37.2 x 55.6 cm.)
Provenance
with W.H. Patterson, London, where purchased by the present owner's grandmother, circa 1988, and by descent.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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