• List updated: 27th March 2010
  • List updated : 17th January 2010 – Additions in green  – supplied by Jose
  • List created : 3rd January 2010 – Many places supplied by Jose Buces
  • List updated: 27th March 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.

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 the link -> for the Latest news about the Tomas Harris Art exhibition, inMallorca, July 2010

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

IN ENGLAND

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 15th-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 University - Whitechapel Art Gallery , London

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

Other Locations around Britain

OTHER EUROPEN COUNTRIES

Denmark : The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Copenhagen
Holland  : Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Museum of Art and History
Czech Republic :   NG Prague – National Gallery in Prague
Paris : Netherlands Institute 

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 ArtsTomas Harris - Self Portrait Sculpture at the Reina Sofia Museum

JAEN – Museo de Jaen – Museum of Fine Arts

MURCIA – Museo de Murcia – Museum of Fine Arts

 

MADRID – Museum of Calcografía Nacional  NEW *   A Large collection of the plates on which Tomás etched or engraved his own original prints. It seems that the family donated these after his death to the Calcografía Nacional in Madrid, in 1978 in fact, and the collection is listed with individual titles, dimensions of each plate and the material of which it is made, mostly ‘rigid plastic’ (whatever that means!) and copper or zinc, and a brief identification of the technique employed -etching, drypoint etc. in the catalogue of the Calcografía’s holdings. About 88 plates by Tomás are listed and the entries run from Nº 5.591 to 5.679 in the Catálogo general de la Calcografía Nacional, published in Madrid in 1987 by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. I don’t think the catalogue reproduces any of these works. (New information gratefully received from Nigel Glendinning March 2010)

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 AMERIA

Washington : National Gallery of Art Washington 

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 unknown-XmKjNQBELLANO  Presented by Tomas Harris Esq., 1952, Place of creation: Padua, Italy
  • The Human Figure, Santa Catalina de Siena, was a very popular saint in the XV & XVI century. She was made in 1952, in Spain, Catalan, and was a gift from Tomas Harris in 1952.  unknown-mIAa8d
  • Archaistic kore 1st century BC – AD 1st century , Gift of Mr Tomas Harris, 1951

*** Note from Anita Harris/Website owner – I would love to add to this list so please let me know if you have more information – thank Q