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'Lawren Stewart Harris'

Greenland Mountains II

"Now if this is right it would be a remarkable find!"

     

     
     

 

 

Lawren Stewart Harris was an irrepressibly brilliant Canadian artist and a founding member of the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters.
 

                

 

Biography:

Born in Brantford, Ontario on the 23rd of October 1885 Lawren Harris   Died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the 29th. of January 1970.

 Lawren Harris was an artist that was hugely concerned with the relationship between the physical formations of the land and spiritual representation and had a unique artistic style


 

 

Lawren Harris in 1957

 

 

 

 

It's believed that in his later years, the Canadian Lawren Harris duplicated several of his favourite works. Exactly replicated is not necessarily correct as they often differed somewhat from the originals.

 

Is that what we have here?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: The Newly discovered

Greenland Mountains II

 

above: This is the confirmed authentic painting by

lawren harris  titled

'Greenland Mountains'

Painted circa 1930 - An Oil on Canvas,

107.4 x 128.4 cm. Purchased in 1936

National Gallery of Canada

(no. 4279)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawren Harris strove to embody the spiritual essence of the universe through simplified, archetypal forms which appear in a mystical light that seems to radiate from the canvas.

One of his most favoured subjects was the mountains of the Arctic north, where he believed the spiritual energies of the world originated. It was these mountains which carried huge symbolic meaning for Him.


“The primal mountains, forged into being by forces beyond human comprehension, were metaphors for the presence and power of a life force that animates the universe.”

His mountain paintings were the last representational works he painted before turning to pure abstraction but the mountain form would always be a central preoccupation in his work.