Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter born on October 23, 1885. He is best known for his landscape paintings, which often featured the Canadian wilderness. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and is highly sought after by collectors. Harris' net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are all available online. He is remembered as one of Canada's most influential painters.
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💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M
Canadian painter known for being a landscape artist and one of the leading members of the Group of Seven, which asserted a common European national identity to their work. He was involved in the modernist movement and his later work shifted to abstract art.
He attended St. Andrew's College, which was located in Rosedale in Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto and studied in Berlin. In 1908, he joined the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and in 1920, he formed the Group of Seven.
He was the only member of the Group of Seven to align with American and European Modernism. He represented Canada at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1926. He painted his first abstract painting in 1934. He was the founder of the Federation of Canadian Artists in 1941 and served as the groups' president from 1944-47.
He was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He married Beatrice Phillips in 1910 and they had three children: Lawren P. Harris, Margaret Anne Harris, and Howard K. Harris. He left Beatrice Phillips after 24 years of marriage and married a woman named Bess Housser in 1934.
He and Wyndham Lewis were both painters from Canada that were involved in the modernist movement.
