Lawren Stewart Harris (1885 - 1970)

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Biography

Lawren Stewart Harris was a member of the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early 1900s. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provided the stimulus for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s, Harris's works became more abstract and simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.^[1]

Harris, born on October 23, 1885 in Brantford, Ontario, was the son of Thomas Morgan Harris and Anna J. Stewart^[2] (daughter of pastor William Boyd Stewart). He was born into a wealthy family – the Harrises of the Massey-Harris industrialists. He attended Central Technical School in Toronto and St. Andrew's College. From age 19 (1904 to 1908) he studied in Berlin.

He married Beatrice (Trixie) Phillips on January 20, 1910. ^[3]They had three children born in the first decade of their marriage. His second marriage was to Bess Marguerite Larkin.^[4]

Harris died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 29, 1970.^[5] He was buried in McMichael Canadian Art Collection Burial Grounds in Kleinburg, Ontario.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Lawren Harris," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lawren_Harris&oldid=703043174 (accessed February 5, 2016).
2. ↑ "Ontario Births, 1869-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMWB-DYF : 16 July 2017), Lawrence Stewart Harris, 23 Oct 1885; citing Birth, Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,845,872.
3. ↑ "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSZG-6WJ : accessed 27 August 2015), Annie Stewart in entry for Lawren Stewart Harris and Beatrice Helen Phillips, 20 Jan 1910; citing registration , Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,872,068.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMRP-11V : 19 August 2019), Bess Harris in household of Lawren Harris, Ward 1, Santa Fe, Election Precinct 28 Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 25-6A, sheet 8B, line 53, family 224, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2452.
5. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLB9-TSK : 8 November 2017), Lowren Stewart Harris, 1970.
6. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 February 2020), memorial page for Lawren Harris (23 Oct 1885–29 Jan 1970), Find A Grave: Memorial #11118, citing McMichael Canadian Art Collection Burial Grounds, Kleinburg, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

See also:

• Canadian Encyclopedia
• National Gallery of Canada