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Harry Anderson Paintings

American, 1906-1996

Harry Anderson was a Scottish artist born in Fife. He as a pupil and life long friend of Charles Pulsford RS. He attended Edinburgh College of Art in the early 50s under Pulsford, where he met his wife Sally. They then moved to London briefly in 1954 and then to Harlow, in 1960. Anderson lived and worked in Harlow for the last 40 years of his life with a studio at Parndon Mill. He died in the summer of 2002 with an unfinished painting still wet on his easel. Contemporaries of Harry Anderson considered him a significant British artist of that generation, an early exponent of abstract expressionism, producing energetic, organic abstracts based on observation of his environment. Anderson regularly exhibited at the Gibberd Gallery in Harlow. “The most important exhibition of modern art in Edinburgh for the last 20 years,” said Sir Richard Demarco in opening the retrospective exhibition of Harry Anderson at the Randolph Gallery in Dundas Street, Edinburgh, January 2007.

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Artist: Harry Anderson
Pier Scene, Great Moments in Early American Motoring
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist August 1972 Calendar illustration.
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1970s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Tempera, Gouache

New York Welcomes the President Elect, Great Moments in American History
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: Sight Size 22.00" x 29.00," Framed 26.50" x 33.50" New York Welcomes the President Elect, Great Moments in American History...
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1960s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Love After Sunset, American Magazine, August 1942
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for Love After Sunset, featured in American Magazine, August 1942 'She was trying to forget his lips and to tell him what she had wanted' Con...
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1940s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Board, Oil

Talking Wires Take Over from the Pony Express
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1960s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Story Illustration "Katie Cling & the Dutchess"
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 20.00" x 25.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Story Illustration: "Katie Cling & the Dutchess", by Dorothy Staley, Goo...
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1940s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Boys in Football Helmets Running After a Dog
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 28.00" x 25.50" Signature: Unsigned Cream of Wheat Advertisement
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1930s Harry Anderson Paintings

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Gouache, Board

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Les Baux de Provence.
Les Baux de Provence.
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