Lawren P. Harris

Lawren Harris was born on October 23, 1885, in Brantford, Ontario, to a wealthy family - The Harrises of the Massey-Harris industrial fortune. He took up painting at an early age and studied in Germany from 1904 to 1907. He worked briefly with Norman Duncan, illustrating several of Duncan’s stories, but Harris was in fact the only member of the Group of Seven who was free all his life from the monetary pressures and temptations of commercial art and advertising design. His affection for Scandinavian landscape painting was one of the key factors in the formulation of the Group of Seven’s approach to the Ontario woods, which Harris himself painted with gusto and attention. It was also Harris who led the way toward painting the high arctic, the Rocky Mountains, Gaspé and other unique and powerful parts of the Canadian earth.

Lawren P. Harris Images:
A Load of Fence Posts
Beaver Swamp
Lake and Mountains
Lakes and Mountains
Maligne Lake, Jasper Park
North Shore Lake Superior
Snow