Lawren Stewart Harris A Canadian Artist and Member The Group of Seven
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Lawren Stewart Harris, (October 23, 1885 — January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and is best known as a member the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provided the stimulus for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s, Harris’s works became more abstract and simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. He also stopped signing and dating his works so that people would judge his works on their own merit and not by the artist or when they were painted. In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

On May 29, 2001, Harris’s Baffin Island painting was sold for a record of $2.2 million (record up to that time). Before the auction, experts predicted the painting done by one of the original Group of Seven would top $1 million, but no one expected it to fetch more than twice that amount. The painting, which has always been in private hands, depicts icy white mountains with a dramatic blue sky.

Lawren Harris’s Algoma Hill was stored in a backroom closet in a Toronto hospital for years and was almost forgotten about until cleaning staff found it. The hospital sold it at a Sotheby’s auction, in 2005, for $1.38 million CDN.

On May 23, 2007, Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II by Harris came up for auction by Heffel Gallery in Vancouver, BC. The painting was a stunning canvas from 1924 that was estimated to sell between $800,000 – $1,200,000. The painting sold for a record-breaking $2,875,000.

Harris’s Nerke, Greenland painting sold at a Toronto auction for $2 million (four times the pre-sale estimate) on November 24, 2008

Harris died in Vancouver in 1970, a well-known artist. He was buried on the grounds of the McMichael Art Gallery, where his work is now held.