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PROVENANCE
Bess Harris Collection
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Toronto, September 1, 1972

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Doris Mills, L.S. Harris Inventory, 1936, Houses Sketches, Group 3, catalogue #9, listed, location noted as the Studio Building
Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, 2011, page 102

During his early student years in Berlin, Lawren Harris had depicted the working-class neighbourhoods of that city. On his return to Toronto, his interest in urban subjects continued, and again he focused on working-class areas, most famously in the Ward district. However, he also produced more lighthearted “house portraits” of rural Ontario, and here depicts a habitation in Brooklin, a community in the town of Whitby. This bucolic scene exudes the kind of peace to be found in a rural area such as this; the pines spread their branches side by side, the house basks in the sun, and long ribbons of clouds float across the sky. Harris’s brushwork is easy and fluid, and his colour choices are rich, particularly the orange of the door, window frames and chimneys. Houses Group No. IX is Harris’s visual ode to the Ontario countryside, as embodied in his poem “Little Houses”:

Dreamers ever leave you, little houses

In smug little villages and on easy hillsides,

Along lazy rivers and in sleepy valleys

Little houses tucked in little yards,

Behind low, white fences or busy green hedges…..

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