The weaknesses of Lawren Harris’s art — a tendency to favor stylization and stasis over the grit and flux of reality, and spiritual rhetoric over things in themselves — can be guessed at by looking at ...

Born on October 23, 1885, in Brantford, Ontario, Lawren Stewart Harris was the son of Thomas Morgan Harris, a secretary at A. Harris, Sons & Company Ltd.—later Massey Ferguson—and Annabelle Stewart.

Actor and comedian Steve Martin is having an encore for his role as a curator. His recent exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris,” is ...

The serene 1926 landscape painting depicts Alberta’s Mount Ishbel in the Sawback Range of the Rocky Mountains in Banff National Park. It was most recently included in the exhibition “The Idea of North ...

With a Steve Martin-curated show earning rave reviews in Los Angeles, and a new record price set at auction on Thursday night, the market for Lawren Harris has never been hotter The Canadian art ...

Harris hiking shirtless near Mount Temple in the Rockies with CBC producer Ira Dilworth Lawren Harris, the Group of Seven’s flamboyant front man, was dashing, oracular, ambitious and enigmatic.

VANCOUVER—Fears over the European debt crisis did little to dissuade art connoisseurs at a Vancouver auction Wednesday, where works by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris sparked seven-figure bidding ...

Sunbeams against a lone tree stump. Snow-capped mountain peaks. Majestic Arctic icebergs. Massive pines laden with thick snow. Artist Lawren Harris's iconic images seem etched into the DNA of many ...

The artist Duane Linklater says that in Cree the phrase for “How old are you?” would be directly translated as “How many winters are you?” He likes the idea that each of us is half winter.

Lawren Harris was a Canadian painter born into a wealthy family on October 23, 1885, in Brantford, Ontario. After studying at St Andrew’s College, Toronto, he attended the University of Toronto where ...