Lawren Harris (1885 – 1970) was a Canadian painter who was one of the original founders of the Group of Seven, which was a group of painters who sought to develop a distinctly Canadian style of painting. The beginning of Harris’ career is characterized by colorful, natural landscapes, however his style of painting would undergo many transformations throughout his life. During the late 1920s he focused almost exclusively on mountains and his work became significantly less colorful and more geometric in its form. Finally, in 1935, he abandoned landscape painting altogether and embraced abstract art. Harris’ work is very unique and important to Canadian art history.

Paintings by Lawren Harris in Chronological Order:

Winter Landscape with Pink House, 1918	Woods, Algoma, 1918	Algoma Hill, 1920
Ice House, Coldwell, Lake Superior, 1923	Afternoon Sun, Lake Superior, 1924	Maligne Lake, Jasper Park, 1924
Pic Island, Lake Superior, 1924	Pine Tree and Red House, Winter City, 1924	Aftermath of Storm – Lake Superior Sketch XXXIV, 1926
North Shore, Lake Superior, 1926	From the North Shore, Lake Superior, 1927	Lake and Mountains, 1928
Lake Superior, 1928	Mountaisn and Lake, 1929	Isolation Peak, Rocky Mountains, 1930
Mount Lefroy, 1930	Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930	Nerke, Greenland, 1930
Baffin Island, 1931	Winter comes from the Arctic to the Temperate Zone, 1935	Abstract Painting #98, 1938
Hanover Abstract, 1938	Abstract No. 7, 1939	Abstract Painting #20, 1942
LSH 21, 1942	Intimations, 1943	Sketch Painted in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1944
LSH 134, 1950	Nature Rhythms, 1950	Untitled, 1951
Abstraction 30, 1955	LSH 83, 1957	Calligraph Forming, 1958
The Spirit of Remote Hills, 1958	Abstraction, 1964	Abstract
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