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Lawren Harris

Painter · 1885-1970

Used a farm machinery fortune to bankroll the Group of Seven and then painted his way into abstraction.

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Life story

1. October 23, 1885 · Brantford, Ontario
   Born at Brantford, heir to the Massey-Harris fortune
2. 1914 · Toronto
   Built the Studio Building in Toronto as a workspace for Canadian landscape painters
3. 1918 · Algoma, Ontario
   Ran the boxcar painting trips along the Algoma line
4. May 7, 1920 · Toronto
   Organized the first Group of Seven exhibition
5. 1930 · Baffin Island, Nunavut
   Sailed to the eastern Arctic and painted the icebergs that became his best-known work
6. 1940 · Vancouver
   Settled in Vancouver and turned to pure abstraction
7. January 29, 1970 · Vancouver
   Died in Vancouver

Sources

• Wikipedia article: Lawren Harris
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Encyclopedia