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Lawren
Harris has become perhaps the best known Canadian Artist.
His works are well known Internationally and very collectible.
Biography:
Lawren Harris was born on October 23, 1885, in Brantford,
Ontario, to a wealthy family - The Harrises of the Massey-Harris
industrial fortune.
He
took up painting at an early age and studied in Germany from
1904 to 1907. He worked briefly with Norman Duncan, illustrating
several of Duncan's stories, but Harris was in fact the only
member of the Group of Seven who was free all his life from
monetary pressures and temptations of commercial art and advertising
designs.
Harris
is also the only member of the Group who kept pushing his
painting, never resting for long with one style or one species
of subject matter. Long after the Group disbanded, Harris
continued to grow and change as a painter, moving eventually
into art deco and pure abstraction. He
was also a talented ceramicist, and in 1922 he published a
volume of poems.
His affection for Scandinavian landscape painting was one
of the key factors in the formulation of the Group of Seven's
approach to the Ontario woods, which Harris himself painted
with gusto and attention.
It
was Harris who led the way toward painting the high Arctic,
the Rocky Mountains, Gaspe and other unique and powerful parts
of the Canadian earth.
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