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| (1885
- 1970) Lawren Harris was born on October 23, 1885
in Brantford, Ontario to a wealthy family - the
Harris’ of the Massey-Harris industrial fortune.
He took up painting at an early age and studied in
Germany from 1904 to 1907. He did some early
illustration work for magazines and a book, but
Harris was in fact the only member of the Group of
Seven who was free all his life from monetary
pressures and the need to earn a living in
commercial art and design. Inspired by an exhibition
of contemporary Scandinavian art, Harris and his
fellow artists discovered how they would paint
Canada with a distinctive style, which was
representative of the Canadian landscape. Harris was
best known for painting the north shore of Lake
Superior, the Arctic, the Rocky Mountains, and other
unique and powerful parts of the Canadian earth.
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