Following are two biographies Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke. Biography from McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario. Lawren S. Harris (1885 - 1970). Born in Brantford,... Read full biography
Following are two biographies Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke. 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... Read full biography
Following are two biographies Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke. 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... Read full biography
Following are two biographies Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke. 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.... Read full biography
Following are two biographies Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke. 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 t... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (120)
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Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art (McMichael Canadian Art Collection & Gooseland Editions
2022
Milroy, Sarah
0 pages (color)
Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955
2017
Carney, Lora Senechal
322 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art
2013
Gouch, Jane Lytton
239 pages (color)
Artists, Architects & Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918
2013
Hill, Charles Hill and Andrea Kunard, Laurier Lacroix
340 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012
Reid, Dennis
506 pages (color)
Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery)
2012
Thom, Ian M.
160 pages (color)
Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings
2011
Duval, Paul
480 pages (color)
Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950
2011
McKay, Marylin
384 pages (color)
The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher)
2010
Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky
480 pages (color)
Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
2009
Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith
776 pages
Lawren Harris: In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings
2009
Harris, Lawren and Betts, Gregory
112 pages (color)
Visions into Reality: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Early Years, 1951-1973 (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria)
2009
Hughes, Mary Jo; Michael Morris and Barry Till
128 pages (color)
Abstract Painting in Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Nasgaard, Roald
432 pages (color)
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
B.C. Binning (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Rogatnick, Abraham J.; Ian M. Thom, Adele Weder
180 pages (color)
The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
2006
Anreus, Alejandro; Diana L. Linden, Jonathan Weinberg
384 pages
From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education in Canada
2006
Pearse, Harold (Editor)
318 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario)
2005
Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson
319 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Water: Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven
2005
Murray, Joan
128 pages (color)
A Modern Life - Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Thom, Ian and Alan Elder, editors
176 pages (color)
The Group of Seven in Western Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Glenbow Museum
208 pages (color)
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
2003
Gooch, Jane Lytton
152 pages (color)
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
Lawren Harris: An Introduction to His Life and Art
2003
Murray, Joan
64 pages (color)
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
2003
Silcox, David P
441 pages (color)
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
2002
Newlands, Anne
355 pages (color)
Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture, Volume 1
2001
Belton, Robert James
398 pages
Lawren Stewart Harris: A Painter's Progress
2001
Hunter, Andrew
96 pages (color)
The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canada, c. 1900-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Murray, Joan
160 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000 (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
2000
Antaki, Karen
72 pages (color)
Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia
2000
Thom, Ian
232 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery
1999
Garvey, Susan Gibson
50 pages
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century
1999
Murray, Joan
272 pages (color)
Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery)
1998
Hunter, Andrew
36 pages (color)
Vision and Spirit: The Transcendental Painting Group (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Blankenship, Tiska
71 pages (color)
A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms
1997
McKendry, Blake
242 pages (color)
A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies
1996
Christensen, Lisa
134 pages (color)
New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995
1996
White, Robert (Editor)
88 pages
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Lowrey, Carol
152 pages (color)
Winter
1994
Berton, Pierre
239 pages (color)
Origins of Abstraction in Canada: Modernist Pioneers (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Murray, Joan
59 pages (color)
Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation
1993
Larisey, Peter
199 pages (color)
The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940
1992
Davis, Ann
217 pages (color)
Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz
236 pages
A Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada
1992
Simpson-Housley, Paul; Gen Norcliffe
280 pages
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Canadian Impressionism
1990
Duval, Paul
166 pages (color)
Urban Images, Canadian Painting (Agnes Etherington Art Centre) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Farr, Dorothy
124 pages
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 pages (color)
Mendel Art Gallery: Twenty Five Years of Collecting (Mendel Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Teitelbaum, Matthew
100 pages (color)
The Expressionist Landscape North American Modernist Painting 1920-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Birmingham Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Second Edition: (Four Volumes)
1988
Marsh, James H. (Editor)
2,736 pages (color)
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam
99 pages (color)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Winter (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds
138 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
One Man's Obsession
1986
McMichael, Robert
410 pages
The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Morrin, Peter (others)
200 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
The Best of the Group of Seven
1984
Murray, Joan; Lawren Harris
95 pages (color)
The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists
1984
Piper, David
448 pages (color)
Visions-Contemporary Art in Canada
1983
Bringhurst, Robert (Editor)
239 pages (color)
Toronto in Art: 150 Years Through Artist's Eyes
1983
Firth, Edith G.
200 pages (color)
Vancouver: Art and Artists, 1931-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Rombout, Luke
440 pages (color)
A Distant Harmony: Comparisons in the painting of Canada and the United States of America Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
1982
Davis, Ann
190 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Emily Carr: A Biography
1979
Tippett, Maria
314 pages (color)
Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930
1978
Adamson, Jeremy
231 pages (color)
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Landmarks of Canadian Art
1978
Mellen, Peter
260 pages (color)
Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art
1978
Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding
96 pages
From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977
Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole
159 pages (color)
Enjoying Canadian Painting
1976
Godsell, Patricia
275 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum)
1976
Williamson, Moncrieff
88 pages (color)
The Ontario Community Collects: A Survey of Canadian Painting from 1766 to the Present (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)
1975
Forsey, William C
247 pages (color)
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Frankenstein, Alfred
63 pages (color)
The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A Peoples' Art
1974
Lord, Barry
253 pages (color)
Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hubbard, R H
198 pages (color)
Impressionism in Canada, 1895-1935 (Toronto Art Gallery of Ontario Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Murray, Joan
152 pages
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970
1972
Duval, Paul
192 pages (color)
Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Creative and Performing Arts (Two Volumes)
1972
Rodney, Helen M.
616 pages
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970
Bradfield, Helen Pepall
603 pages
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 2, G-Jackson
1970
MacDonald, Colin S.
294 pages
The Group of Seven (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Reid, Dennis
0 pages
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University at Kingston
1968
Smith, Frances K.
195 pages
The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art
1967
Duval, Paul
96 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1967
National Gallery of Canada
32 pages (color)
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes)
1964
Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter
234 pages (color)
The Development of Canadian Art (The National Gallery of Canada)
1964
Hubbard, R.H.
137 pages (color)
An Anthology of Canadian Art
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
187 pages (color)
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson
1958
Jackson, A.Y.
182 pages (color)
British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology
1958
Watters, Reginald E. (editor)
576 pages (color)
Canadian Drawing and Prints
1952
Duval, Paul
100 pages
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Canadian Art-Its Origin and Development (Paperback) 1967
1943
Colgate, William
278 pages
Contemporary Art of the Western Hemisphere
1941
Editor, IBM Corporation
217 pages
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters'
1936
Lismer, Arthur
12 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index