Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries

by Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens

Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a transnational career in abstract painting.

The social, intellectual, and aesthetic milieu of American transcendentalism shaped a movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086492965X
• ISBN13: 9780864929655
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 10.1"