Tom Curr Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1887 - d. 1958

Tom Curr was one of Scotland’s most successful and accomplished commercial artists and cartoonists. Born in Edinburgh in 1887, he spent his entire working life – apart from his military service in WW1 – in the employment of the Leith-based printers McLagan & Cumming, producing a wide range of tourism and advertising posters. Many of the army recruiting posters he produced for the firm are on display at the National War Museum in Edinburgh Castle although no information is provided there about the artist. He was, in later in life, a noted painter, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy and his work is included in the Government and Clydesdale Bank art collections. His paintings of Clydesdale horses now sell for very respectable prices.