Thomas Carr (artist)

Thomas James Carr OBE (21 September 1909 – 17 February 1999) was an Irish artist who was associated with the Euston Road School in the 1930s and had a long career as a painter of domestic scenes and landscapes.

[1] Carr was born in Belfast to a well-to-do family and attended Oundle School where his art masters included E.M.O'R.

Although essentially a realist painter, Carr was included in the 1934 Objective Abstractionists exhibition at Zwemmer's Gallery.

In 1937, Carr shared an exhibition with Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers at the Storran Gallery and subsequently became associated with the representational style of the Euston Road school.

[5] In 1939, Carr returned to Northern Ireland and settled in Newcastle, County Down where he spent the Second World War.