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Lawren Harris Journey Towards the Light

Item number (ISN):

32760

Series title:

CBC Thursday Night

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

32760

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIDEOTAPE RECYCLING

Accession:

1986-0616

Media:

Video

Release date:

1985-10-24

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, Nancy Ryley; director of photography, Ken Gregg; writer, Marilyn Powell; editing, Myrtle Virgo; sound, Eric Lindgren; Erik Hoppe; art historical consultant, Peter Larisey; narrator, Martha Henry; Nonnie Griffin; host, Jan Rubes

Description:

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Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian artist and member of the group of Seven, is profiled in this documentary hosted by Jan Rubes. Still photographs of Harris (who died in 1970) and of his family and childhood; voice-over narrative by Martha Henry; quotations of Harris read by William Hutt; and interviews with contemporaries provide glimpses' into Harris' personal background & development as an artist. Stills of Harris' landscape painting are juxtaposed with scenes of Algoma and the Lake Superior area, the Rockies and the arctic, where acost of his early work was done. The artist's quest for "a union between the world of nature and the realm of the spirit" is explored through examples of his later work as it evolved toward the abstract. Harris' belief in theosophy; his controversial relationship with his second wife and fellow painter, Bess Hauser , and his development as a monobjective artist are discussed in interviews with (among others): Prof. Churchill Lathrop of Darmouth College, New Hampshire; architect Arthur Erikson; musician Harry Adaskin; and artists Doris Speirs and Jack Shadbolt. Noteworthy footage includes: the homes and studios of Lawren and Bess Harris in New Mexico and Vancouver; Wassily Kandinsky creating an abstract painting; and a final superimposed image of Harris against mountain peaks. <60mn>

Subjects:

ABSTRACT ART~ART & RELIGION~CANADIAN ART~CANADIAN ARTISTS~LANDSCAPE IN ART~LANDSCAPE PAINTERS~LIGHT IN ART~MODERN ART~NATIONALISM & ART~GROUP OF SEVEN ~ADASKIN, HARRY~ERICKSON, ARTHUR~GRIFFIN, NONNIE~HARRIS, BESS~HARRIS, LAWREN~HENRY, MARTHA~HUTT, WILLIAM~KANDINSKY, WASSILY~LATHROP, CHURCHILL~RUBES, JAN~SHADBOLT, JACK LEONARD~SPEIRS, DORIS

Language:

English

Original number:

61-2-2486-8101

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

27907

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8610-0084

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

678401

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_8610-0072.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 8610-0072

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

678402

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_8610-0072.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 8610-0072

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8610-0084

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

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With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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