© the artist's estate. Photo credit: Yale Center for British Art
Artist, notably in tempera, born in Leyland, Lancashire. He was married to the artist Audrey Johnson in 1947, their son being the potter Tobias Harrison. He was educated at Preston College of Art, 1939–41, Liverpool College of Art, 1941–2, then after Royal Air Force service in India, Burma and China, at Royal College of Art, 1947–50. Harrison was a painter of murals, portraits, conversation pieces and imaginative figure compositions including harlequin-type and masked figures and using a delicate palette.
He showed with RP of which he was an honorary member, RA, RBA and elsewhere in mixed exhibitions and had numerous solo shows including Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton, 1992. In 1991 he shared a show with his wife at Phoenix Gallery, Highgate. Harrison published The Portrait Painters’ Handbook, 1968, and The Book of Tobit, 1969. Harris Art Gallery in Preston and galleries in Kendal and Lancaster hold his work. Lived in Cartmel Fell, Cumbria.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
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