Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries

by Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens

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Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a transnational career in abstract painting.

The social, intellectual, and aesthetic milieu of American transcendentalism shaped a movement of abstract art across North America, seen in the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Katherine Dreier, Raymond Jonson, and Lawren Harris. Harris, in particular, made an impact on both sides...

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  • ISBN10 086492965X
  • ISBN13 9780864929655
  • Publish Date 7 February 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Goose Lane Editions
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 204
  • Language English