biographie de Lawren Stewart H. HARRIS (1885-1970)

Death place: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Addresses: Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1940-on

Profession: Painter

Studied: Univ. Toronto, c.1903; in Berlin, 1904-08

Exhibited: WFNY, 1939; GGE, 1939; Mus. Non-Objective Paintings, NYC, 1930s; M. Diamond FA, NYC, 1983 (solo)

Member: Int. Theosophical Soc., 1918; Canadian Seven (founder, 1917-32); Transcendental Painting Group (pres., 1938-41)

Comments: A nationally recognized Canadian artist, he is best known as one of the "Canadian Seven" (until the group"s dissolution in 1932). He began as a Post-Impressionist landscape painter, and by the 1930s he was painting in a non-objective abstract style. He left his wife and children in Toronto, taught at Dartmouth College, and ended up in Santa Fe in 1938 where he became a member of the Transcendental Painting Group. Author: articles, Canadian Theosophist (1920s).

Sources: American Abstract Art, 186; Diamond, Thirty-Five American Modernists p.44

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