Higher states : Lawren Harris and his American contemporaries / Roald Nasgaard & Gwendolyn Owens

Object Details

Notes
Catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from Februrary 4 to September 4, 2017 and at the Glenbow Museum from October 7, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
Contents
Foreward and forward / Sarah Stanners -- Harris's modernity : the engineering draughtsman's instruments / Roald Nasgaard -- A high sort of seeing : Emerson, Harris, and the American moderns / Gwendolyn Owens -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- List of works -- Artist biographies / Emily Baker & Isabella Mello
Summary
"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, he 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. Inspired by the ideas of Kandinsky and informed by the writings of Emerson and Whitman, Harris and his North American contemporaries - Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Katherine Dreier, Raymond Jonson - turned to abstraction to express higher states of consciousness. As Harris's career progressed, as he ascended from mountain tops to inner states of mind, he sought greater and more ethereal spiritual heights. This magnificent volume features reproductions of more than 75 paintings by Harris and his contemporaries. Essays by Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens inve.
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2017
20th century
Call number
ND249.H37 A4 2017
organizer
Nasgaard, Roald
Owens, Gwendolyn
Author
Harris, Lawren 1885-1970 Paintings Selections
host institution
Glenbow Museum
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Subject
Harris, Lawren 1885-1970
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Illustrated works
Physical description
201 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 27 cm
Title
Lawren Harris and his American contemporaries
Topic
Painting, American
Painting, Abstract
Record ID
siris_sil_1097023
Usage
CC0