Tomas Harris – Where to see his art, collections and engravings in England, Spain and Australia

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 10:20 PM

The updated list of places to see Tomas Harris Art can be viewed here -> www.TomasHarris.com <- Please click this link to view the updated list which has all of the below plus all the latest updates.

The list below was last updated on 3 Jan 2010

This post provides a list of places in England, Spain, and Australia where you could view Tomas Harris’s wonderful works of Art. Some great pieces of Tomas’s Art can be viewed right here in my Tomas Harris Art Gallery. The list below is constantly growing – and will be kept updated. Additional information is gratefully received.

Tomas Harris was my grandfathers brother and a man of many talents. Many posts on this site are about Tomas and his many achievements. He was a scholar, an artist, a potter, a sculpture, an MI5 officer, a husband, a Goya Specialist and an art dealer whose father owned the Spanish Art Gallery in London in the late 1800′s. And that just names a few.

Tomas’s father was Lionel Harris who was an art dealer and owner of the Spanish Gallery in London. He collected textiles from places around the world. Lionel Harris had 7 children. My grandfather William Harris was one of them. Tomas Harris the famous artist was my grandfathers brother.

Much of Tomas’s Art and his Art collections can be seen in Exhibitions in Museums around the world. Many Art exhibitions have been held at other places over the years, some catalogue covers can be viewed in my Tomas Harris Catalogue Gallery. Just last year (2009) there was a successful exhibition in Mallorca, in Andratx, the town where he lived for 16 years until he died. Hopefully Andreu Jaume will be organising another one this summer (in 2010). Click here to view the latest about the Tomas Harris Art exhibition 2010 .

Tomas Harris Art can be seen in the following places:-

IN LONDON

LONDON : The British Museum – Great Russell Street, London, WC1B, Tel +44(0)20 7323 8000

The ‘Goya Print Collection’, also known as the ‘Goya Inheritance’, loaned to the British Museum for its Goya exhibition by Tomas Harris and donated after his death by his wife and family

LONDON : The Victoria and Albert Museum - South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 2000

Lionel Harris sold late 15^th-century sepulchral sculptures to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1910 and he sold rare textiles and carpets and other works to them between that date and 1920

LONDON : The Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, 50 Strand, Charing Cross, London, WC2R 0RN, Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2526

Tomas Harris paintings and engravings
Collection of Textiles from Tomas Harris, but originated from his father Lionel Harris who visited Spain’s churches and important houses, and Chile and Peru’s ‘passemeterie’. He returned with expensive unusual fabrics, tapestries etc.

LONDON : Warburg institute, Woburn Square, London, WC1 oAB, Tel. +44 (0)20 7862 8949

Tomas Harris paintings

LONDON : Slade School of Art, University College, Gower Street

Tomas won a scholarship for Slade when he was just 16, and returned again after the war to study Goya’s engraving techniques and was taught by John Buckland Wright. a famous illustrator (from New Zealand)
Two Tomas Harris Drawings donated by Jose Buces, Created during study at Slade School
Small collection of Goyas donated by Tomas Harris

LONDON : Queen Mary College, London (not sure about public viewing)

Oil painting
El Cestero drawing – old man- the basketmaker – sitting sideways in a chair

IN SPAIN

After Tomas death in 1964, many pieces of Tomas’s art were donated to these museums

VALENCIA – Museo Nacional De Ceramica de Valencia - Gonzalez Marti, Calle del Poeta Querol 2, 46002 Valencia, Spain, Tel 963 516 392

Jose Buces donated ceramics made by Tomas Harris Ceramics

VALENCIA – Museo de Bellas Artes Pio V – Museum of Fine Arts

SEVILLE – Museo de Bellas Artes Sevilla – Museum of Fine Arts

JAEN – Museo de Jaen – Museum of Fine Arts

MURCIA – Museo de Murcia – Museum of Fine Arts

MADRID - Museo Reina Sofia – The self portrait sculpture of Tomas made by Tomas Harris is in the Reina Sofia Museum

MADRID – Biblioteca Nacional The National Library

MADRID – Calcografia Nacional Spain’s national archive of engravings and etchings

MADRID – Museo del Prado – Museum of Fine Arts

MAJORCA – Museo de Mallorca – Carrer de sa Portella 5, Mallorca, Spain, Tel: +34 971 717 540

IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE : National Gallery of Victoria (http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/).

Cacti – Cartones para tapiz – Cartoon for a tapestry , only 3 woven at the Royal Factory in Madrid – one shown at Melbourne (gift from Tomas Harris’s three sisters in 1975 after the Courtauld Exhibition by Anhony Blunt), one at the the Museo de Sevilla in Spain, and the third location is unknown – if known please inform me here. : contact me
Lamentation of Christ (late 15th century) attributed to Bartolommeo BELLANO Presented by Tomas Harris Esq., 1952, Place of creation: Padua, Italy
The Human Figure (La figura Humana), Gift of Mr Tomas Harris, 1952, Created in SPAIN, Catalan
Archaistic kore 1st century BC – AD 1st century , Gift of Mr Tomas Harris, 1951