Remembering Lawren Harris on his birthday 🎂
Hiking shirtless near Mount Temple in the Rockies
"He stopped making scenes of shady lanes & streets with strolling couples, & almost every living thing vanished from his paintings."
- @SteveMartinToGo, The Idea of North
"Annie Philbin, the canny director of the Hammer Museum, looked curiously at a small picture over her shoulder & said 'Who's that?' In the moment I realized that I had a secret wish: that Lawren Harris be better known in the United States."
- @SteveMartinToGo
Highly recommended: The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, a 2015/16 exhibition @agotoronto @hammer_museum, curated by @SteveMartinToGo
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Today we're celebrating the great Canadian painter's birthday 🇨🇦
"In the early 20s, since the mountains had yet to come to anybody, Lawren Harris went to the mountains. A painter of the backwoods & the streets of Toronto, Harris went by boxcar, boat & boot to the Canadian north. It provided his work with the necessary elevation."
~Steve Martin
"After years of frustration, dead ends, dedicated thought, & hard work, Harris had synthesized his successes & failures into a clear vision. His work had become modern."
- Steve Martin
Lawren Harris
Mt. Lefroy, 1930
@hammer_museum
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