Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963) Haystacks and Sun (painted in the late 1950'sStudio inventory no. EE 241)Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)Haystacks and Sun oil on board25.4 x 60.3cm (10 x 23 3/4in).painted in the late 1950'sStudio inventory no. EE 241ProvenanceWith Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh, 1964.Private collection, UK (acquired from the above for £85, 1964); thence by descent to the present owner.ExhibitedEdinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son, Festival Exhibition, 1964, cat. no. 39.Catterline was a great source of inspiration for Eardley. Like Claude Monet, she often returned to the same motif within her landscapes. The fields behind the row of cottages provided the perfect setting to capture the last warmth of summer drying out the corn stooks."I find that the more I know a place, or of one particular spot, the more I find to paint...I very often find that I will take my paints to a certain place which has moved me and I begin to paint there and I find, by perhaps by the end of the summer I have not moved from that place. My paints are still there, I have worn a kind of mark in the ground, there's no grass left; generally a sort of studio seems to have arrived outside...it is still the same spot really, the same feeling that I am trying to grasp." (Joan Eardley, interview conducted by the Arts Council, 1961).