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Harry Tanner

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Cottage scene

2001

14” x 10”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on plywood/gesso

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Alec & Daniela

2016

21” x 15”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on Canvas

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Copy - Rubens Portrait of Susanna Lunden

24” x 17”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on plywood/gesso

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Mr Carr's Car

1997

22" x 18”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on plywood/gesso

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Colonial Chair

1963

24” x 19”

Oil

Painted on Canvas Board/Gesso

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Painted in Paris at the Andre Lhote Studio and completed in Havana

A Corner of the Artist’s Studio

2011

16” x 11”

Oil Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on Wood/Gesso

Collection of Harsyl Tanner and Omar Perez

Mother at 16 in Cuba

2016

Oil-Resin on Plywood

Painted on canvas

Based on photograph taken in 1916 at Cabanas, Cuba, a port town west of Havana where she lived with her family

Copy - detail of Still Life by Jan de Heem

ca. 2016

35 cm x 23 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on birch panel/ gesso

Collection of Sbrenka Bogovic 

Trinidad, Cuba Rooftops

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Copy - detail of Peter Paul Rubens A Shepherd with his Flock in a Woody Landscape

2015

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Che and Fidel

2014

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on canvas

Trinidad Doorway

2013

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on wood/gesso

Copy - detail of Titian Noli Me Tangere

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on wood/gesso

Union Station

Cuban Fruits

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on Canvas

A Baroque Landscape “Dream”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Copy - detail of Caravaggio’s St Catherine

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on wood/gesso

Waiting for the Maggi

2014

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on cardboard/gesso

Celebration of Yuka Drums in 1962 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

2014

27” x “22”

Painted on Masonite/gesso

Collection of Sandra Junkin

Copy - detail of Virgin’s Mantle in Titian painting on The Flight into Egypt

circa 2016

Painted on Masonite/gesso

Muskoka

1996

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Above the Stores

1990

60 cm x 40 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on Masonite/gesso

Collection of Barbara Crawford 

Venus of Toronto

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on prepared colour paper

Toronto Ravine at Riverdale

2001

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on canvas/gesso

Copy - Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1665 ) Girl with a Pearl Earring

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Collection of Jennifer Armstrong and Dave Leask

Portrait of Cathy and Jack Stevenson

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Collection of Cathy Stevenson 

View of Trinidad, Cuba

circa 1975

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on canvas

Conflict

1980

117.3 cm x 81.5 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Copy - detail of Caravaggio Sacrifice of Abraham 1603

Oil-resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on plywood/gesso

Collection of Susan Snelgrove and Larry Firmin

Development

Oil-resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Collection of Lynn Bevan and Hugh Wild

Almendares River Iron Bridge, Havana

C. 1971

3” x 4”

Enamel on copper

Cuban Country Scene

1964

Enamel

Morro Castle in Storm

circa 1971

3.25”x 4”

Copper enamel

Llegaremos - We Shall Arrive

Painted on Canvas

La Abanderada

Abstract Study

1958

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Portrait of Charlie

1958

Oil and Damar Varnish

Painted on canvas

Copy of Titian Pastoral Concert c. 1509

Copy of Titian Pastoral Concert c. 1509

Oil-resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on wood/gesso

Collection of Andrew Tanner and Linda Grannen

The Red Sun

circa 1958

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas 

Collection of Andrew Tanner and Linda Grannen

Eaton's 1984

1986

153 cm x 107 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

A study of architectural forms and socio-economic relationships with homage to George Orwell’s “1984”

Tea in Colonial Havana

Simonetta - Copy of Piero Di Cosimo Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci c. 1480 - 1490

12" x 14"

Painted on Canvas

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Collection of Mondy Chehab Stevenson

Birch Trunks

8.25" x 9.75"

Painted on board

Oil on egg tempera emulsion

Collection of Mondy Stevenson

Copy of Johannes Vermeer The Milkmaid 1657-1658

24" x 18"

Painted on board

Oil-resin

Collection of Mondy Stevenson

Toronto Beaches

2002

18" x 11"

Painted on board

Egg tempera emulsion

Collection of Mondy Stevenson

Drying Coffee Beans in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba

Oil-resin on egg tempera emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Andrew Tanner and Linda Grannen

Portrait of Charlie

New Gallery

New Gallery

New Gallery

Promethean Still Life

1996

New Gallery

New Gallery

New Gallery

Ontario Roads

1987

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

122 cm x 75 cm

Painted on Masonite/gesso

Night View of Havana

1963

19” x 16”

Wax and Linseed Oil

Painted on Canvas

Copy- detail of Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa

Study in Grays & White

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on wood/gesso

Collection of Susan Snelgrove and Larry Firmin

Perfume bottle belonged to Harry’s mother purchased in Havana

Trinidad Conjunto

2012

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on wood/gesso

Tribulations of the Artist - based on Tribulations of St. Anthony by Patinir

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on wood/gesso

Abela Family Portrait (Havana)

1970’s

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion 

Painted on canvas

Self Portrait

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on masonite/gesso

La Ceiba

1973

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Sargento de Infanteria

1974

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Decorando el Comite

1981

74 cm x 53.5 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Collection of Langer Family

The Committee for the Defence of the Revolution count on the voluntary participation of the neighbours

Shooting of William Albert Charles Ryan

1978

71 cm x 102 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Hurdle Family

The last moments of this Canadian hero who gave his life for Cuban independence

Jose Marti

1973

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

View of Markham Street

1985

81 cm x 77 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Dickey Family

One day looking out of my studio window

The Messenger

2001

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Candy and Cory Porter

Portrait of Becky

Unfinished

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Poundmaker

1987

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Jennifer Armstrong and David Leask

A Light at the End of the Tunnel

1993

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Collection of Lynn Bevan

Salon Mamoncillo

1984

100 cm x 150 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Canadian Auto Workers

Dance is a way of life in Cuba

Augusto Cesar Sandino

1985

87 cm x 51 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

The general of free men is now content

Street in Centro Habana

1981

82 cm x 118 cm

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Collection of Heather Hutchin

A cross-section of a city in revolution

Fast Food Haven

1990

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

Collection of Lynn Bevan

Sikhan & Tanze

1985

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on canvas

An allegory based on a Yoruba legend

Cuban Countryside

1974

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Yellow Rose

Cortona Tomatoes

Violets

20” x 16”

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board/gesso

Lieutenant of Calvary

1974

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Above the Stores #2

1988

Oil-Resin on Egg Tempera Emulsion

Painted on board

Collection of Annemarie and Gary Greenwood

Che

Cottage scene

— view —

Alec & Daniela

— view —

Copy - Rubens Portrait of Susanna Lunden

— view —

Mr Carr's Car

— view —

Colonial Chair

— view —

A Corner of the Artist’s Studio

— view —

Mother at 16 in Cuba

— view —

Copy - detail of Still Life by Jan de Heem

— view —

Trinidad, Cuba Rooftops

— view —

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Copy - detail of Peter Paul Rubens A Shepherd with his Flock in a Woody Landscape

— view —

Che and Fidel

— view —

Trinidad Doorway

— view —

Copy - detail of Titian Noli Me Tangere

— view —

Union Station

— view —

Cuban Fruits

— view —

A Baroque Landscape “Dream”

— view —

Copy - detail of Caravaggio’s St Catherine

— view —

Waiting for the Maggi

— view —

Celebration of Yuka Drums in 1962 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

— view —

Copy - detail of Virgin’s Mantle in Titian painting on The Flight into Egypt

— view —

Muskoka

— view —

Above the Stores

— view —

Venus of Toronto

— view —

Toronto Ravine at Riverdale

— view —

Copy - Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1665 ) Girl with a Pearl Earring

— view —

Portrait of Cathy and Jack Stevenson

— view —

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View of Trinidad, Cuba

— view —

Conflict

— view —

Copy - detail of Caravaggio Sacrifice of Abraham 1603

— view —

Development

— view —

Almendares River Iron Bridge, Havana

— view —

Cuban Country Scene

— view —

Morro Castle in Storm

— view —

Llegaremos - We Shall Arrive

— view —

La Abanderada

— view —

Abstract Study

— view —

Portrait of Charlie

— view —

Copy of Titian Pastoral Concert c. 1509

— view —

The Red Sun

— view —

Eaton's 1984

— view —

Tea in Colonial Havana

— view —

Simonetta - Copy of Piero Di Cosimo Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci c. 1480 - 1490

— view —

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Birch Trunks

— view —

Copy of Johannes Vermeer The Milkmaid 1657-1658

— view —

Toronto Beaches

— view —

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Drying Coffee Beans in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba

— view —

Portrait of Charlie

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

Promethean Still Life

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

New Gallery

— view —

Ontario Roads

— view —

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Night View of Havana

— view —

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Copy- detail of Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa

— view —

Study in Grays & White

— view —

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Trinidad Conjunto

— view —

Tribulations of the Artist - based on Tribulations of St. Anthony by Patinir

— view —

Abela Family Portrait (Havana)

— view —

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Self Portrait

— view —

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La Ceiba

— view —

Sargento de Infanteria

— view —

Decorando el Comite

— view —

Shooting of William Albert Charles Ryan

— view —

Jose Marti

— view —

View of Markham Street

— view —

The Messenger

— view —

Portrait of Becky

— view —

Poundmaker

— view —

A Light at the End of the Tunnel

— view —

Salon Mamoncillo

— view —

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Augusto Cesar Sandino

— view —

Street in Centro Habana

— view —

Fast Food Haven

— view —

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Sikhan & Tanze

— view —

Cuban Countryside

— view —

Cuban Countryside (Cubist) - Version 2.jpg

Yellow Rose

— view —

Cortona Tomatoes

— view —

Violets

— view —

Lieutenant of Calvary

— view —

Above the Stores #2

— view —

Che

— view —

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