Higher states: Lawren Harris and his American contemporaries
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Nasgaard, Roald and Gwendolyn Owens
- Publisher
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada : McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
- Call Number
- 06.1 N17h
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- Responsibility
- Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens
- Publisher
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada : McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 27 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Subjects
- Art
- Art, Canadian
- Harris, Lawren
- Art History
- Abstract
- Lawren Harris sought greater and greater heights as his career progressed; from mountains to states of mind, he aimed to go higher. This iconic Canadian landscape painter took a seemingly unexpected turn toward abstract art in 1934 – the year in which he moved to the United States, where he remained until 1940. Higher States frames Harris in the larger North American context during his years in New Hampshire and New Mexico, and features an important presentation of his US counterparts, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley. Guest curators Dr. Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens investigate the evolution of Harris’s painting from landscape to abstraction and demonstrate his integral role in cross-border artistic developments. (Taken from McMichael: Canadian Art Collection)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780864929655
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 N17h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL pertains to the website in which the abstract was taken from
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