A founding member of the Group of Seven, a cohort of Canadian landscape painters also known as the Algonquin School, Lawren ... spiritual and abstract exploration, Harris’s paintings are ...

Lawren Harris was a Canadian painter born into a ... Harris continued to innovate and push the boundaries of traditional painting. He was interested in Theosopy and experimented with abstract and ...

He was the owner of Vancouver’s historic Art Emporium, a gallery started by photographer Philip Timms in 1897. Kristiansen was particularly known for his fondness for the work of Group of Seven ...

Freeing his painting from representation, Harris sought to distill his work ... ensuing decade Harris continued to simplify and abstract his landscapes until his subjects became non-representational.

focusing on Lawren Harris' abstract landscapes, and ignoring Tom Thomson's glorious paintings of northern lights and A.Y. Jackson's scenes from Algonquin Park in winter. What effect does winter ...

Emil Bisttram, Dualities,1938, oil on canvas. Courtesy: © The Estate of Emil Bisttram and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University During the 19th ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers ...

The Transcendental Painting Group lived through a global pandemic, great economic disruption, the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl, and the dangers of rising fascism and war. Agnes Pelton ...

CONTEMPORARY Canadian art is as complex and controversial as ... The original seven were J. E. H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, A. Y. Jackson, Fred Varley, Franklin Carmichael, and ...

Lawren Harris was a Canadian artist born with vision, determination, and talent and was the driving force for modern Canadian art in the 20th century. His aesthetic portrayal of the Idea of North, in ...

Officials have been noticeably quiet, however, about Polo’s shady past, which includes a prison term following his embroilment in a $130 million art-fraud ... The abstract tableau is made ...

Lawren Harris fully embodied this contradiction ... reworking old canvases and ensuring that his more recent abstract paintings received pride of place. For someone who had spent so much of ...