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Lawren Stewart Harris

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Lawren Stewart Harris (1885 - 1970) was active/lived in New Mexico, Ontario / Canada.  Lawren Harris is known for Abstract landscape, genre and portrait painting.

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Biography from McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
 
Lawren S. Harris (1885 - 1970)
 
Born in Brantford, Ontario, into a wealthy, conservative and religious family, co-founders of Massey-Harris, Lawren Harris enjoyed much privilege in his youth. This enabled him to concentrate on his painting.

At the age of nineteen he travelled to Germany, where he studied for three years. He returned home to serve in the army and taught musketry at Camp Borden, Ontario.

Following his discharge from the army, Harris organized the first of what were to become the famed boxcar trips to Algoma, Ontario. The last of these trips took place in 1921, when Harris and A.Y. Jackson went to the North Shore of Lake Superior. There, Harris encountered a stark and bare landscape - one that was ideally suited to the new direction of his work.

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   Publications  Book References:  118
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lawren Stewart Harris
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews A Sweet Spot for the Arts November 2004 Jordan, Betty Ann Yes
Art Times New Art Books October 2003 Editor, Art Times Yes
American Art Review The Group of Seven in Western Canad October 2003 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Art Times New Art Books September 2003 Editor, Art Times No
Wildlife Art The Global Charisma of Nature March 2002 Brown, Joan Yes
Art & Antiques Taking the High Road October 1998 Koster, Michael Yes
American Art Review The Transcendental Painting Group December 1997 Blankenship, Tiska Yes
American Art Review Canadian Painting, 1885-1920 October 1995 Lowrey, Carol Yes
118 Book References for Lawren Stewart Harris
Year Author Title Pages Color
2017 Carney, Lora Senechal Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955 322 Yes
2013 Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario 357 Yes
2013 Gouch, Jane Lytton Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art 239 Yes
2013 Hill, Charles Hill and Andrea Kunard, Laurier Lacroix Artists, Architects & Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918 340 Yes
2012 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition) 506 Yes
2012 Thom, Ian M. Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery) 160 Yes
2011 Duval, Paul Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings 480 Yes
2011 McKay, Marylin Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 384 Yes
2010 Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher) 480 Yes
2009 Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art 776 No
2009 Harris, Lawren and Betts, Gregory Lawren Harris: In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings 112 Yes
2009 Hughes, Mary Jo; Michael Morris and Barry Till Visions into Reality: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Early Years, 1951-1973 (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria) 128 Yes
2008 Nasgaard, Roald Abstract Painting in Canada
(Exhibition catalog)		 432 Yes
2007 Newlands, Anne Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings 366 Yes
2007 Rogatnick, Abraham J.; Ian M. Thom, Adele Weder B.C. Binning
(Exhibition catalog)		 180 Yes
2006 Anreus, Alejandro; Diana L. Linden, Jonathan Weinberg The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere 384 No
2006 Pearse, Harold (Editor) From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education in Canada 318 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) 319 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Murray, Joan Water: Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven 128 Yes
2004 Thom, Ian and Alan Elder, editors A Modern Life - Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 (Vancouver Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
2003 Glenbow Museum The Group of Seven in Western Canada
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
2003 Gooch, Jane Lytton Artists of the Rockies: Inspiration of Lake O'Hara, Illustration 100 years of landscape painting by the Lake O'Hara area in the Canadian Rockies 152 Yes
2003 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Biographical Index of Artists in Canada 250 No
2003 Murray, Joan Lawren Harris: An Introduction to His Life and Art 64 Yes
2003 Silcox, David P The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson 441 Yes
2002 Newlands, Anne Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000 355 Yes
2001 Belton, Robert James Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture, Volume 1 398 No
2001 Hunter, Andrew Lawren Stewart Harris: A Painter's Progress 96 Yes
2001 Murray, Joan The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canada, c. 1900-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
2001 Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction 622 No
2000 Antaki, Karen Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000 (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery 72 Yes
2000 Thom, Ian Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia 232 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Garvey, Susan Gibson A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery 50 No
1999 Murray, Joan Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century 272 Yes
1998 Hunter, Andrew Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery) 36 Yes
1997 Blankenship, Tiska Vision and Spirit: The Transcendental Painting Group
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 Yes
1997 McKendry, Blake A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms 242 Yes
1996 Christensen, Lisa A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies 134 Yes
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1995 Hill, Charles C The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation
(Exhibition catalog)		 374 Yes
1995 Lowrey, Carol Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 152 Yes
1994 Berton, Pierre Winter 239 Yes
1994 Murray, Joan Origins of Abstraction in Canada: Modernist Pioneers
(Exhibition catalog)		 59 Yes
1993 Larisey, Peter Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation 199 Yes
1992 Davis, Ann The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940 217 Yes
1992 Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde
(Exhibition catalog)		 236 No
1992 Simpson-Housley, Paul; Gen Norcliffe A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada 280 No
1991 Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 1557 Yes
1990 Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward) Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada 230 Yes
1990 Duval, Paul Canadian Impressionism 166 Yes
1990 Farr, Dorothy Urban Images, Canadian Painting (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 No
1989 Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton) 122 Yes
1989 Teitelbaum, Matthew Mendel Art Gallery: Twenty Five Years of Collecting (Mendel Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1988 Birmingham Museum of Art The Expressionist Landscape North American Modernist Painting 1920-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 216 Yes
1988 Marsh, James H. (Editor) The Canadian Encyclopedia: Second Edition: (Four Volumes) 2736 Yes
1988 McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 Yes
1988 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal) 417 No
1988 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition) 418 Yes
1986 Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds Winter
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 McMichael, Robert One Man's Obsession 410 No
1986 Morrin, Peter (others) The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Murray, Joan; Lawren Harris The Best of the Group of Seven 95 Yes
1984 Piper, David The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists 448 Yes
1983 Bringhurst, Robert (Editor) Visions-Contemporary Art in Canada 239 Yes
1983 Firth, Edith G. Toronto in Art: 150 Years Through Artist's Eyes 200 Yes
1983 Rombout, Luke Vancouver: Art and Artists, 1931-1983
(Exhibition catalog)		 440 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1979 Tippett, Maria Emily Carr: A Biography 314 Yes
1978 Adamson, Jeremy Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930 231 Yes
1978 Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art 119 Yes
1978 Mellen, Peter Landmarks of Canadian Art 260 Yes
1978 Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art 96 No
1977 Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape 159 Yes
1976 Godsell, Patricia Enjoying Canadian Painting 275 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 School of American Research Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 No
1976 Williamson, Moncrieff Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum) 88 Yes
1975 Forsey, William C The Ontario Community Collects: A Survey of Canadian Painting from 1766 to the Present (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto) 247 Yes
1975 Hill, Charles C Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue)
(Exhibition catalog)		 223 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 Lord, Barry The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A Peoples' Art 253 Yes
1973 Hubbard, R H Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1973 Murray, Joan Impressionism in Canada, 1895-1935 (Toronto Art Gallery of Ontario Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 152 No
1973 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973 319 Yes
1972 Duval, Paul Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970 192 Yes
1972 Rodney, Helen M. Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Creative and Performing Arts (Two Volumes) 616 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Bradfield, Helen Pepall Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection 603 No
1970 MacDonald, Colin S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 2, G-Jackson 294 No
1970 Reid, Dennis The Group of Seven
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Townsend, William Canadian Art Today 114 Yes
1968 Smith, Frances K. Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University at Kingston 195 No
1967 Duval, Paul The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art 96 Yes
1967 Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art 254 Yes
1967 National Gallery of Canada Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1966 Harper, J Russell Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition) 443 No
1966 Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art 128 Yes
1964 Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes) 234 Yes
1964 Hubbard, R.H. The Development of Canadian Art (The National Gallery of Canada) 137 Yes
1960 Hubbard, R.H. An Anthology of Canadian Art 187 Yes
1960 Hubbard, R.H. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III 463 No
1958 Jackson, A.Y. A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson 182 Yes
1958 Watters, Reginald E. (editor) British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology 576 Yes
1952 Duval, Paul Canadian Drawing and Prints 100 No
1948 National Gallery Of Canada Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada
(Exhibition catalog)		 271 No
1943 Colgate, William Canadian Art-Its Origin and Development (Paperback) 1967 278 No
1941 Editor, IBM Corporation Contemporary Art of the Western Hemisphere 217 No
1936 Lismer, Arthur Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters' 12 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Editor, National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada Catalogue 218 No
1926 Housser, F.B. A Canadian Art Movement 221 Yes
1925 MacTavish, Newton The Fine Arts in Canada 181 Yes
1917 Holme, Charles Art of the British Empire Overseas 144 Yes
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