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Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris

Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris

James King

The first complete biography ever published of Group of Seven artist and spokesman Lawren Harris. Lawren Harris (1885-1970) is among the most iconic of Canadian artists.
Lawren Harris: Contrasts : in the Ward-- a Book of Poetry ...

Lawren Harris: Contrasts : in the Ward-- a Book of Poetry ...

Lawren Harris

Unlike any other book on Harris, this edition offers a new view of Harris’s career before the Group of Seven while presenting an exciting window into city life at the turn of the century.
The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris

The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris

Steve Martin

This generously illustrated book examines the most significant period in the work of Lawren Harris, who was central to defining a distinctive Canadian art in the 20th century.
Lawren Stewart Harris: a painter's progress

Lawren Stewart Harris: a painter's progress

Lawren Harris

This volume includes an essay exploring Harris's career and his place in Canadian art by noted scholar Ian M. Thom, senior curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a more interpretive and poetic essay by Andrew Hunter, an independent ...
Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Winter: Five Windows on the Season

Adam Gopnik

Arctic Sketch IX, Lawren Harris, 1930 Courtesy ofthe family of Lawren S. Harris Photo: Heffel Fine Art Auction House A Dendrite Star, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley , c. 1885–1931 © Smithsonian Institution Archives, Bentley Snowflake591 [A ...
A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris

A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris

Lisa Christensen

A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris traces the steps Harris took on this monumental trip.
In the Ward: Lawren Harris, Toronto and the Idea of North

In the Ward: Lawren Harris, Toronto and the Idea of North

Andrew Hunter

"AGO curator Andrew Hunter's subjective exploration of the historical Toronto neighbourhood, the Ward, and parts of the Canadian Arctic, as inspired by the work of iconic Canadian painter Lawren S. Harris.
Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Life and Work

Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Life and Work

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A long list of younger artists he considered creative grealy benefited from Harris's encouragement and often generous, practical help; many of them have been interviewed for this book.
In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings

In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings

Lawren Harris

The juxtaposed poetry and paintings compliment each other to provide a unique view into the artistic workings as Harris confronted Toronto's cold underbelly--searching for a metaphor for the poverty that he encountered in the Ward's world.
Lawren Harris: An Introduction to His Life and Art

Lawren Harris: An Introduction to His Life and Art

Joan Murray

A brief history of the life and work of the Canadian artist and founding member of the Group of Seven.
The Best of the Group of Seven

The Best of the Group of Seven

Joan Murray

In the early twentieth century a group of young artists strived to create, in Lawren Harris’s words, paintings that would “embody the moods and character and spirit of the country.” The fifty-four breathtaking colour plates in this ...
Storage and Disposition of Weapons-usable Fissile Materials: ...

Storage and Disposition of Weapons-usable Fissile Materials: ...

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Gary Gwyn, Lynn Gwynn, Sharon Hadaway, Tom Haddock, JoAnn Hagemeier, Jim Hager, Lela H. Hagennan, Sharon ... Harris, Cathie L. Harris, Gary C. Harris, Jeff Harris, Lisa Harris, Lucille Harris, Melva Harris, Pat Harris, Sharon Harris, ...
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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HAR FINGTCN, S REBEccA HARRINGTON, W BREND AN HARRIS, AL AIR TOWNS END HARRIS, cAND ACE DIANE HARRIS, CHARLES A. . ... AL DINE HARRIs, GoRDON L. HARRIS, H AR OLD BHARRIS, JAMES O.HARRIS, JEFFF EY.
The Great Western Railway in the First World War

The Great Western Railway in the First World War

Sandra Gittins

Harley James Henry Harman Charles Harper John Francis Harper William Arthur Harper William T. Harpin John Harries T. Harris A. Harris B.A. Harris D. Harris Ernest Herbert Harris George Harris George Alwyn Harris Melville George Harris  ...
English Literature, 1660-1800: A Bibliography of Modern ...

English Literature, 1660-1800: A Bibliography of Modern ...

Curt Arno Zimansky

709, 957 Harris, James, 611 Harris, Sir James, 264 Harris, John, 12, 133, 260(2], 493; rev. 259, 376, 1093 Harris, Kathleen, 542 Harris, Michael H., 757 Harris, Richard, rev. 833 Harris, Ronald Walter, 363, 368(2], 493, 589, 1103 Harris, ...
A Father's Journey, a Daughter's Voyage, a Cancer Journal: ...

A Father's Journey, a Daughter's Voyage, a Cancer Journal: ...

Leonard Harris

In Memory of Eugene Harris, Sr., Agnes C. Harris, Mildred Richie, Lucille Madry, and Diana McCoy. ... and Cindy Robinson, Mary Anderson (Peaches), Julius Gresham, Lucius Harris, Sharon Kube Jones, Diane Gibson, Elder James and Alice ...
True Adventures of the Floating Poet

True Adventures of the Floating Poet

Mike Harris

The difference is that Harris holds out some hope for the reader whom this volume will surely hook – it makes Harris an excellent, not quite indifferent, grungy, but compassionate fisher of men.
Piedmont Farmer: The Journals of David Golightly Harris, ...

Piedmont Farmer: The Journals of David Golightly Harris, ...

David Golightly Harris

The Journals of David Golightly Harris, 1855-1870 David Golightly Harris Philip N . Racine ... number of slaves of, 500 n.2; nursed by Laura Harris, 398; rent of, 31, 63, 90, 156, 158; rents her land, 500 n.2; returns from Philadelphia, 495; returns ...
My Life and Loves

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris

Volume IV, and last of the versions that Harris had final say on. Begins with a piece on how Harris first came to write, goes at length into discussions with lesbians, and some orgies Frank had in San Remo.
Lost Towns of North Georgia

Lost Towns of North Georgia

Lisa M. Russell

Joe Frank Harris, Joe Frank Harris: Personal Reflections on a Public Life (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1998). Harris, Steely and FitzSimons, “Oral History Interview with Joe Frank Harris.” Wagner, “Atco Began with 40 Homes.” EVHS ...
Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

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Lemma Harris (1888-1970) and grandson Joe Frank Harris (b. 1936), ca. 1939. Joe Frank Harris was governor of Georgia from 1983 to 1991. His wife, Elizabeth Carlock Harris, is honorary chairwoman of the gqp. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth ...
A Harris (Hill & Park) Clan in California

A Harris (Hill & Park) Clan in California

Robert Z. Callaham

Mary R. Harris, putative mother of John F. Harris, was b. Maryland, as was her unnamed spouse. 1815. Estimated year of mar. of Mary R. Harris and her unknown husband, parents of John F. and his older sister. 1825. Estimated year of birth of ...
Frank Harris

Frank Harris

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CHAPTER TWENTY Frank Harris's portrait gallery: egotist and liar? V W hat is at the bottom of the indictment against Harris and the Contemporary Portraits? As we see it two cries have been hurled at him with damning consistency and ...
Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Peninsula Horticultural Society

General Display— First, Walter B. Harris, Worton, Md $200.00 Single Box, Special— First, Walter B. Harris 50.00 Single Box— First, Walter B. Harris 25.00 Second, Wine & Garber, Woodside, Del 15.00 Three Boxes— First, Walter B. Harris ...
Harris families

Harris families

Dorothy Cheek McFarland

Fred and Mary Belle had six children/ Carmel Sheridan/ Herbert Elmore/ Allen Chedester/ Aubrey Willard/ William Frederick, Evelyn Ruth. * Carmel Sheridan Harris/ son of Frederick R. Harris and Minnie Belle Chedester Harris. Born 9 Feb.
Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky ...

Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky ...

J. Blaine Hudson

23 Chapman Harris (¡802–¡890) was probably the most colorful and heroic figure in the Madison area—perhaps along the ... Harris was bound for Charleston, but when strong winds blew his steamboat to the Louisville shore Chapman Harris, ...
Georgia Official and Statistical Register

Georgia Official and Statistical Register

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Son: Joe Frank Harris, Jr. Governor Harris is the son of Frank G. Harris and Julia Frances (Morrow) Harris. Thomas C. Lewis, Cartersville, Senior Executive Assistant to Gov. , Nov. 4, 1986-date. Executive Assistant to Gov., Jan. 1983-Nov.
Frank Harris: a Study in Black and White

Frank Harris: a Study in Black and White

A. I. Tobin

To throw light on the motives & movements of a conspicuous literary figure of the last generation, two friends of Harris's from Chicago, Dr. Tobin, his 'authorized' biographer, & Mr. Gertz, an attorney who was Harris's agent in the latter ...
The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

Frank Harris

Now largely out of print and inacces­sible, and overshadowed since his death in 1931 by the Frank Harris legend and by his reputation as the author of the notorious My Life and Loves, the stories nevertheless bear witness to the ...

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