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Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.

Lawren Harris

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.

Lawren Harris

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

Lawren Harris

Lawren Harris

Lawren Harris

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Born: October 23, 1885

Died: January 29, 1970 (aged 84)

Bio: Lawren Stewart Harris was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario, and is best known as a member of the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. A. Y.

Known for:

North Shore, Lake Superior (1926)
Lake and Mountains (1928)
Afternoon Sun, Lake Superior (1924)
Baffin Island (1931)

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