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1885 Brantford, Ontario, Canada - 1970 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Known for: Abstract landscape, genre and portrait painting.
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