Canadian landscape · Modernism

Lawren Harris1885–1970 · Toronto

"The Canadian North reduced to pure geometry."

The signature

A 1920 co-founder of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris pared the Canadian Shield down to its essential volumes. His icebergs, Rocky Mountain peaks and Lake Superior views became a nation's visual language. Auction record set at Heffel.

Lineage

Canadian modernist lineage, alongside Tom Thomson and A.Y. Jackson.

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