Claudia Massie

Joan Eardley deserves to be ranked alongside Bacon and de Kooning

Her ferocious landscapes and experimental portraits show the prodigious artist to be among the finest of her generation

‘Girl with a Poke of Chips’, 1960-63, by Joan Eardley. Credit: Courtesy of The Scottish Gallery

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