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Museums page for Thomas Alexander Harrison ((1853 - 1930)), known for Impressionist seascape, pastoral landscape and figure painting. Showing 11 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1853 Philadephia, Pennsylvania - 1930 Paris, France. Known for: Impressionist seascape, pastoral landscape and figure painting.
Painter Thomas Alexander Harrison was noted as a painter of horizontal wave seascapes, nocturnal* beach scenes, bathing and clothed female figures, plein-aire pastoral landscapes and children on... Read full biography
Painter Thomas Alexander Harrison was noted as a painter of horizontal wave seascapes, nocturnal* beach scenes, bathing and clothed female figures, plein-aire pastoral landscapes and children on beaches. Harrison, whose brother Birge Harrison, also became a successful artist, was born and raised in... Read full biography
Painter Thomas Alexander Harrison was noted as a painter of horizontal wave seascapes, nocturnal* beach scenes, bathing and clothed female figures, plein-aire pastoral landscapes and children on beaches. Harrison, whose brother Birge Harrison, also became a successful artist, was born and raised in Philadelphia, where the family lived in Germantown. Much of his work was inspired by an intrinsic love of the sea and the vastness of nature, space and the sky he observed during his six year... Read full biography
Painter Thomas Alexander Harrison was noted as a painter of horizontal wave seascapes, nocturnal* beach scenes, bathing and clothed female figures, plein-aire pastoral landscapes and children on beaches. Harrison, whose brother Birge Harrison, also became a successful artist, was born and raised in Philadelphia, where the family lived in Germantown. Much of his work was inspired by an intrinsic love of the sea and the vastness of nature, space and the sky he observed during his six year experience, 1872-1877, surveying the shores of New England, Florida and Pacific Coast for the United States Coastal and Geodetic Survey. Harrison's formal study of art was delayed by this employment, although in 1872, he had studied briefly at the... Read full biography
Painter Thomas Alexander Harrison was noted as a painter of horizontal wave seascapes, nocturnal* beach scenes, bathing and clothed female figures, plein-aire pastoral landscapes and children on beaches. Harrison, whose brother Birge Harrison, also became a successful artist, was born and raised in Philadelphia, where the family lived in Germantown. Much of his work was inspired by an intrinsic love of the sea and the vastness of nature, space and the sky he observed during his six year experience, 1872-1877, surveying the shores of New England, Florida and Pacific Coast for the United States Coastal and Geodetic Survey. Harrison's formal study of art was delayed by this employment, although in 1872, he had studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* before joining the Survey. In 1877 in Seattle, he left his survey job and traveled San Francisco w... Read full biography
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About Thomas Alexander Harrison: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsBrauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University
1709 Chapel Drive
Valparaiso, IN 46383Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, IA 52804-4520Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
5th Avenue At 7th Street
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39441Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Musée d'Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
Paris, FranceSheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006