Tom Carr
A landscape and figure painter, Carr was born in Belfast and his interest in art was encouraged from an early age. In 1927 he enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he studied for two years under Henry Tonks and then travelled to Italy where he spent some of his time studying at the British School in Rome. The Queen Mother acquired one of his paintings in 1939 from an exhibition of contemporary English art in the Wildenstein Gallery, the same gallery that Carr was to have his first solo show in London a year later. In 1940 he first contributed to the Royal Hibernian Academy continuing to do so until 1957, then returning to it after an absence of thirteen years in 1971. In 1957 he included two works at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, around this time he was also teaching part-time at the Belfast College of Art and gained full membership to the RWS in 1959. www.whytes.ie In 1970 he had an exhibition of watercolours at the David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin which was well received with the Irish Times critic writing that he was: quite definitely, the outstanding watercolourist in this country (See Snoddy, p. 80) He was a highly respected artist with one of his paintings, Deers Meadow being reproduced as a special postage stamp to celebrate the Ulster 71 Festival. In 1973 he was elected an associate to the RUA winning the Gold Medal in the same year. In 1974 he was awarded MBE which was followed in 1994 by an OBE. A major retrospective exhibition was held in 1983, firstly at the Ulster Museum and then at the Douglas Hyde Gallery. The catalogue appreciation was written by T.P. Flanagan and the exhibition consisted of 162 works covering more than fifty years of Carrs artistic career. In 1991 he received a Doctorate of Literature at Queens University, two years later he was made an honorary member of the RHA and his works were exhibited at the European Parliament, Strasbourg. In 1996, a BBC film on the artist entitled Sunshine in a Room was transmitted. In London two of his works can be found at the Tate Gallery and in the Arts Council of Great Britain collection. www.whytes.ie
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'FANTA'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- watercolour
- 15½ x 21½in. (39.37 x 54.61cm)
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'FLOODED RIVER'
- Price Realised: 640
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- watercolour
- 15Ό x 12Όin. (38.74 x 31.12cm)
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'NUDE'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 29 February 2016
- watercolour
- 8 x 12½in. (20.32 x 31Ύcm)
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'THATCHED COTTAGE'
- Price Realised: 480
- Sale: 10 December 2016
- oil and watercolour
- 11Ό x 7Ύin. (28.58 x 19.69cm)
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'FOREST SCENE'
- Price Realised: 420
- Sale: 09 December 2018
- watercolour
- 20 x 30in. (50.80 x 76.20cm)
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'WILD FLOWERS'
- Price Realised: 400
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- watercolour
- 14 x 21in. (35.56 x 53.34cm)
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'EVENING RAMELTON, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 400
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- watercolour and oil pastel heightened with white
- 28 by 20cm., 11 by 8in.
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'FLOWER STUDY'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 10 July 2023
- watercolour and charcoal
- 21 x 18Όin. (53.34 x 46.36cm)
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'GEMMA READING'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 14 June 2021
- pastel
- 10Ύ x 8in. (27.31 x 20.32cm)
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'LANDSCAPE IN ALCANIZ, 1970'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 09 December 2018
- watercolour
- 18 x 23in. (45.72 x 58.42cm)
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'WATERASK THORN, 1974'
- Price Realised: 340
- Sale: 09 December 2018
- watercolour
- 22Ό x 14½in. (56.52 x 36.83cm)
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'HAWTHORN BLOSSOM'
- Price Realised: 320
- Sale: 10 July 2023
- watercolour heightened with white
- 21½ x 14½in. (54.61 x 36.83cm)
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'DOG BY A TREE'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 10 July 2023
- mixed media
- 9½ x 7in. (24.13 x 17.78cm)
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'THE CHILDRENS ROOM, SKETCH'
- Price Realised: 260
- Sale: 28 November 2016
- pencil on paper
- 9½ x 6Ύin. (24.13 x 17.15cm)
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'IN CHURCH'
- Price Realised: 200
- Sale: 13 December 2023
- pencil and watercolour
- 10Ό x 7in. (26.04 x 17.78cm)
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'THE CORNFIELD, 1960'
- Price Realised: 200
- Sale: 03 April 2017
- watercolour
- 9Ό x 13in. (23½ x 33.02cm)
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'THE POSTMAN, 1963'
- Price Realised: 190
- Sale: 03 April 2017
- ink
- 9 x 7½in. (22.86 x 19.05cm)
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'THE SCHOOL HOUSE, BALLYDRAIN'
- Price Realised: 150
- Sale: 03 April 2017
- lithograph; (no. 32 from an edition of 40); (unframed)
- 25Ύ x 19Όin. (65.41 x 48.90cm)
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'TOM CARR, APPRECIATION BY EAMONN MAILLIE'
- Price Realised: 130
- Sale: 13 December 2010
- first edition book
- 31 by 22cm., 12.2 5 by 8.5in.
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'ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN, 1939'
- Price Realised: 120
- Sale: 14 December 2020
- 8½ x 10Ύin. (21.59 x 27.31cm)
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'ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN, 1939'
- Price Realised: 110
- Sale: 06 December 2008
- colour print (no. 53 from an edition of 80)
- 22 by 27cm., 8.5 by 10.7 5in.
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'Eamonn Mallie, Tom Carr: An Appreciation'
- Price Realised: 50
- Sale: 09 December 2006