Lawren Harris

Lawren Stewart Harris (Known as "Lawren Harris")

Visionary Painter, Driving Force and Co-founder of the Group of Seven

Born Oct 23, 1885

Brantford (Ontario), Canada

Passed Away Jan 29, 1970 Vancouver, Canada

Lifespan 84 years old

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"The great north was calling us to free our eyes and see the infinite spirit in rock and light."

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Visionary artist and spiritual leader of the Group of Seven, whose luminous, austere paintings of Lake Superior, the Arctic, and the Rocky Mountains redefined the Canadian visual imagination.

Biographical Record

Heir to the Massey-Harris farm machinery fortune, Harris studied art in Berlin before returning to Toronto determined to create a national school of painting. He financed the Studio Building in Toronto in 1914 and organized boxcar sketching expeditions into the Algoma wilderness.

Deeply influenced by Theosophy, Harris distilled the Canadian wilderness into pure, geometric, light-filled forms in iconic works like North Shore, Lake Superior (1926) and Mount Lefroy. He was the only Group of Seven member to transition successfully into pure spiritual abstraction.

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McMichael Canadian Art Collection Grounds
Kleinburg (Vaughan, Ontario), Canada

                         GPS: 43.8333, -79.6167                    

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