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Lawren Stewart Harris
Lawren Stewart Harris
1885 - 1970
ALC BCSFA CGP FCA G7 OSA RPS TPG
Harris had a privileged upbringing in the wealthy Massey-Harris family in Ontario. From 1904 to 1907, he studied in Berlin, Germany with Franz Skarbina, Fritz von Willie and Adolf Schlabitz. On his return to Canada, he became a charter member of the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, where he met most of the future members of the Group of Seven. Harris, along with the patron Dr. James MacCallum, financed the building of the Studio Building in Toronto, which opened in 1914, and kept his studio there, along with other Group of Seven members.
From 1910 to 1918, Harris painted the urban landscape of Toronto. In 1913, an exhibition of modern Scandinavian painting at the Albright Gallery in Buffalo had a profound effect upon Harris, due to its bold expression of raw northern landscape. After this, began to paint beautiful snow scenes as well as the urban scenes.
Another shift took place around 1918 when Harris traveled to Algoma on a sketching trip with fellow Group of Seven artists using a railway box car as a base. His work became more rugged and dramatic, and was shown in 1920 in the first Group of Seven exhibition, which established the presence of a new landscape school.
A pivotal experience occurred in 1921, when Harris went to the shore of Lake Superior, producing stark and compelling paintings of this region. His style of reducing the landscape to its essential form, and his interest in the spiritual in nature grew, and 1924 saw his first visit to the Rockies, and the start of his powerful mountain paintings. He also traveled to the Arctic, and was inspired by the sculptural landscapes there.
In 1934 Harris married his second wife Bess Housser, and relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. He then moved to Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1938, where he became one of the founding members of the Transcendental Painting Group. Harris’s expansive beliefs based on Theosophy led him to explore abstraction deriving from the spiritual energy emanating from nature. Harris might have stayed in Sante Fe if it were not for the intervention of World War II. Canada, having declared war on Germany, set restrictions on funds leaving the country and, unable to get the money they needed to live on, the Harrises returned to Canada in 1940 and later that year settled in Vancouver. Harris continued with his abstract work, while becoming deeply involved in the Vancouver art scene. He served as an executor of Emily Carr’s estate and established the Emily Carr Scholarships, was the chair of the exhibitions committee at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and in 1944 became the President of the Federation of Canadian Arts. In 1960 he was appointed to the board of the National Gallery of Canada.
Harris’s life was a transformative one, beginning as a powerful nationalistic landscape painter, then evolving into abstraction which transcended borders.
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Lawren Stewart Harris
Mountain Forms
60 x 70 in, 152.4 x 177.8 cm
circa 1926
oil on canvas
Estimate: $3,000,000 - $5,000,000 CDN
Sold for:
$11,210,000
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2016 - 3rd Session on Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Lawren Stewart Harris
Mountain and Glacier
29 1/4 x 35 in, 74.3 x 88.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 CDN
Sold for:
$4,602,000
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2015 - 2nd Session on Thursday, November 26, 2015
Lawren Stewart Harris
Winter Landscape
47 1/2 x 50 in, 120.6 x 127 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CDN
Sold for:
$3,658,000
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2015 - 2nd Session on Thursday, November 26, 2015
Lawren Stewart Harris
The Old Stump, Lake Superior
12 x 15 in, 30.5 x 38.1 cm
1926
oil on board
Estimate: $2,000,000 - $2,500,000 CDN
Sold for:
$3,510,000
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2009 - 2nd Session on Thursday, November 26, 2009
Lawren Stewart Harris
Mountains East of Maligne Lake
40 1/2 x 52 1/4 in, 102.9 x 132.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $2,500,000 - $3,500,000 CDN
Sold for:
$3,001,250
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2017 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Lawren Stewart Harris
Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II
32 x 38 in, 81.3 x 96.5 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $800,000 - $1,200,000 CDN
Sold for:
$2,875,000
CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Spring 2007 on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Lawren Stewart Harris
Bylot Island I
32 x 45 in, 81.3 x 114.3 cm
circa 1930
oil on canvas
Estimate: $1,500,000 - $2,500,000 CDN
Sold for:
$2,808,000
CDN (premium included)
Spring 2010 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Lawren Stewart Harris
Houses, St. Patrick Street
32 1/2 x 40 1/4 in, 82.5 x 102.2 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CDN
Sold for:
$2,808,000
CDN (premium included)
Fall 2009 - 2nd Session on Thursday, November 26, 2009
Lawren Stewart Harris
House in the Ward, Winter, City Painting No. 1
32 x 38 3/8 in, 81.3 x 97.5 cm
circa 1924
oil on canvas
Estimate: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 CDN
Sold for:
$2,521,250
CDN (premium included)
Canadian, Impressionist & Modern Art on Thursday, November 24, 2022
Lawren Stewart Harris
Laurentian Landscape
30 1/8 x 35 in, 76.5 x 88.9 cm
1913
oil on canvas
Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CDN
Sold for:
$2,183,000
CDN (premium included)
Spring 2016 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, May 25, 2016