Bird’s Head  c.1968-1989

Sam Walsh

Airbrush/oil on paper, 45 x 58 cm.

Private collection.

Interior  c.1968-1973

Sam Walsh

Oil, acrylic, aerosol on canvas, 137 x 137 cm.

Collection: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, UK.

Three Figures in a Warm Climate   c.1962-1965

Sam Walsh

Oil and household paint on Masonite hardboard,  122 x 143 cm.

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery.

Provenance: First exhibited: Liverpool Academy 1965 (17), purchased Walker Art Gallery; later re-exhibited Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Walsh’s first retrospective, Sep 1967 (16).

Angela  1971

Sam Walsh

Pencil, airbrush on paper.

Collection unknown.

Notes: Subject is Angela Davis, American civil rights activist.

General II   1967

Sam Walsh

Oil, collage on Masonite hardboard, 122 x 123 cm.

Collection: Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, UK.

J Edgar Hoover  1964

Sam Walsh

Oil, household paint and collage on Masonite hardboard, 92 x 92 cm.

Collection: Private, Liverpool, UK.

Ros  1982

Sam Walsh

Pencil on paper, 64 x 50 cm.

Private collection.

Notes: In some instances subtitled Ros & Geranium or Ros & Geraniums.

Springfield Mountain  1965

Sam Walsh

Collection: Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, UK.

Notes: Materials/media likely to be oil and household paint on Masonite hardboard, dimensions in the region of 92 x 92 cm, as similar paintings of the same era were. See Additional for a note regarding this work, and how it might relate to another painting of the same period – Landscape with Walking Figure.

Mike’s Brother 1964

Sam Walsh

Oil, household paint on Masonite hardboard, 153 x 160 cm.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.

Notes: First exhibited: Bradford Spring Exhibition (282) 1964. Subject is Paul McCartney (Sir James Paul McCartney) of The Beatles, brother of Mike (“McGear”) McCartney, Walsh’s friend. See also Additional.

The Dinner Party  1980

Sam Walsh

Oil on canvas, 168 x 168 cm.

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery.

Notes: The painting features people that were contemporaneously in or had previously been in the artist’s life.

Table left, from foreground to back: Ray Hudson, artist’s neighbour; David Berry, artist’s solicitor; Nish (Christine) Ridpath, artist’s friend; Arthur Ballard, ex-boxer and painter; Lesley Earnshaw, artist’s ex-wife; Joe Martindale, writer; Sam Walsh himself; Mike Carran, artist’s bank manager; Stanley Haddon, Liverpool Philharmonic clarinettist; Luke Walsh, son of Sam Walsh and Lesley Earnshaw; Don Craig, ex-teacher and Liverpool Councillor.

Table right, from foreground to back: Susannah Lash, artist’s friend; Billy Wellings, artist’s friend, restaurateur; Adrian Henri, poet and painter; Ros McAlister, artist’s partner, integral to the photographic and technical process of the painting’s creation; Roger McGough, poet; Sam Walsh himself; Maurice Cockrill, painter; Jim Weston, sculptor; Don McKinlay, painter; Janina Cebertowicz, painter, McKinlay’s partner; Sheenagh McKinlay, stained glass artist, Don’s daughter; Spud Nolan, artist’s friend.

More information on this painting in Additional.

Note on Print Requests: A number of people have inquired regarding provision of prints for this work. Prints of this work are not being provided by this website at this time but it may be worth contacting the Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, the current owners of the painting, regarding this.

Two Figures  c.1962-1968

Sam Walsh

Collection: Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, UK.

Notes: Materials/media likely to be oil and household paint on Masonite hardboard, dimensions in the region of 92 x 92 cm, as other similar paintings of the same era were.