Lawren Stewart Harris a Painter's Progress
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Harris lived in the United States during two distinct periods in the 1930s, first in Hanover, New Hampshire, and then in Taos, New Mexico, where he formed the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) with Raymond Jonson, Emil Bisttram, Agnes Pelton, and others. In 1940, Harris moved to Vancouver, and for the rest of his life continued to create uncompromisingly original abstract paintings that derived in part from his interests in Theosophy and Transcendentalism, as well as in European and American modernism, including the writings and paintings of Kandinsky.
This volume includes an essay exploring Harris's career and his place in Canadian art by noted scholar Ian M. Thom, senior curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a more interpretive and poetic essay by Andrew Hunter, an independent scholar based in Dundas, Ontario, that constitutes a meditation upon Harris's oeuvre and his journey to abstraction.