Collection search - Lawren Stewart Harris fonds [textual record, graphic material, moving images]

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Lawren Stewart Harris fonds [textual record, graphic material, moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1873-1970.

Reference:

R3787-0-0-E, MG30-D208

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102327

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Lawren Stewart Harris fonds
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Fonds includes:

66 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1873-1970.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.25 m of textual records.
87 photographs b&w, col.
28 drawings.
3 prints etching, woodcuts.
1 film reel (21 min).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, business papers, subject files, notebooks, manuscripts, printed material, memorabilia.

Photographic material depicts the artistic activities of Lawren S. Harris and other members of the Group of Seven such as Tom Thomson, Fred Varley, A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald and Arthur Lismer; the studio of A.Y. Jackson in Manotick, Ontario.

Drawing works are entitled "Excorsizing ... Oh Come On You Little Devil", "What'll you have it without", and "Taking 'em Unawares". Also included are 24 charcoal drawings by Lawren Harris created as illustrations for lectures on abstract art. Other graphic material includes 1 etching by J.W. Wood; 1 ballpoint pen sketch by Lawren Harris; 1 coloured woodcut by A.Y. Jackson and 1 woodcut by Peter Sager.

Fonds also consists of an excerpt from an epsiode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television series Lively arts, featuring an interview with Lawren Harris, [ca. 1961].

Provenance:

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Harris, Lawren, 1885-1970
Additional name(s):

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Wood, William John, 1877-1954

Sager, Peter, 1920-

Artist: Jackson, A. Y. (Alexander Young), 1882-1974
Biography/Administrative history:

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Harris, Lawren, 1885-1970 : Lawren S. Harris, artist, was born in Brantford, Ont. After travelling in Europe and the Middle East, 1904-ca. 1909, Harris settled in Toronto, where, with Dr. James MacCallum, he built the Studio Building on Severn St., and was instrumental in the formation of the Group of Seven. For the next twenty years, Harris painted throughout Canada, with other members of the Group. During the 1930s, Harris lived in the United States, for a time as artist in residence at Dartmouth College, N.H. He moved to Vancouver in 1942, where he remained until his death.

Harris was co-founder of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933, and the Federation of Canadian Artists, 1940. He was a trustee of the Emily Carr scholarship fund, a member of the board of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and was associated with the Theosophical Society in Canada.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, pp. 794-795; Encyclopedia Canadiana, vol. 5, p. 89.

Finding aid:

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Textual record: (Paper) The finding aid is a file list, with a list of the correspondence, of vols. 1-13. MSS0631

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS0631
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000097.pdf

Photographs: (Other) See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

Moving Images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1975 from Margaret H. Knox, Lawren P. Harris and Howard K. Harris; additional business papers, volume 14, received in 1984 from Lawren P. Harris.
Subject heading:

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Painters - Canada, 1873, 1905-[ca.1969] Studio Building, 18173, 1913-1960

Lawren Stewart Harris - Correspondence, 1925-1961 Lawren Harris, 1969

Painting, Canadian, 1873, 1913-1960 Group of Seven, 1905-[ca.1969]

Lawren Stewart Harris - Finance, Personal, 1873, 1913-1960
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1976-03-17)
1976-0256 MISA
1976-027 PIC
1976-036 NPC
1977-041 PIC
1983-087 NPC
1983-098 PIC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D208
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 631] 65

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [HARRIS, LAWREN P. 1983-087] 5206

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [HARRIS, LAWREN P. 1976-036] 6333

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Drawings (accession no. 1976-027): No restrictions for use on reproductions or for diffusion. Copyright: Estate of Lawren Harris; Crown copyright on reproductions. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Drawings (accession no. 1983-098): No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright: Estate of Arthur Lismer. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form reqires the written permission of the copyright holder.

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