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Harris MG30-D208 Finding Aid 631 TABLE OF CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS ........... iii CORRESPONDENCE ..........................................................1 BUSINESS PAPERS...........................................................1 SUBJECT FILES..............................................................1 NOTEBOOKS .............................................................2, 10 MANUSCRIPTS ..............................................................3 TRANSCRIPTS............................................................7, 10 PRINTED MATERIAL.........................................................8 Catalogues .............................................................8 Programmes............................................................8 Periodicals.............................................................9 Pamphlets, Press Releases, Reprints .........................................9 Clippings and Scrapbooks ................................................10 MEMORABILIA.............................................................10 APPENDIX A ...............................................................11 iii BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Lawren Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario. After travelling in Europe and the Middle East, 1904-[1909] , Harris settled in Toronto where, with Dr. James MacCallum, he built the Studio Building on Severn Street and was instrumental in the formation of the Group of Seven. For the next twenty years, Harris painted throughout Canada with other members of the Group. During the 1930's, Harris lived in the United States, for a time as artist in residence at Dartmouth College, N.H. He moved to Vancouver in 1942, where he remained until his death. Harris was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933, and the Federation of Canadian Artists, 1940. He was a trustee of the Emily Carr Scholarship Fund, a member of the board of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and was associated with the Theosophical Society in Canada. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS Correspondence, 1925-1966. 6 cm (volume 1) Arranged chronologically. Business Papers, n.d., 1939-1960. 1 cm (volume 1) Financial records and lists of paintings. Subject Files, n.d., 1944-[1967]. 5 cm (volumes 1-2) Arranged alphabetically. Notebooks, [c.1910]-[1954]. 21.5 cm (volumes 2-4, 13) Containing notes, addresses, quotations, poems, and essays. Arranged chronologically. Manuscripts, n.d., 1905-[1954]. 30 cm (volumes 4-7) Essays, speeches, radio talks, letter drafts, and notes. Miscellaneous manuscripts by other authors. Arranged alphabetically by title or subject. Transcripts, n.d., [c.1969]. 33 cm (volumes 7-10, 13) Transcripts of Lawren Harris’ manuscripts used in the preparation of Lawren Harris (1969), edited by Bess Harris and R.G.P. Colgrove. Arranged in three series: transcripts grouped in ‘collections’ by Harris/Colgrove; Harris/Colgrove files of transcripts; miscellaneous transcripts. Also, a mock-up of Lawren Harris. Printed Material, 1925-1967. 28 cm (volumes 10-12) Catalogues, n.d., 1930-1963, and programmes, 1946-1953, arranged chronologically; periodicals, 1926-1967, and pamphlets, press releases, and reprints, 1925-1965, arranged alphabetically; clippings and scrapbooks, 1922-1960. Memorabilia, 1945-1958. .5 cm (volume 13; see also vertical filing cabinet) Degrees and certificates. Lawren S. Harris MG30-D208 Vol. File File Title Date CORRESPONDENCE 1 1 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1925-1927 1 2 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1941-1947 1 3 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1948-1949 1 4 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1950-1953 1 5 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1954-1959 1 6 Correspondence to Lawren Harris 1960-1966 1 7 Correspondence to Lawren Harris n.d. 1 8 Correspondence to Bess Harris n.d. BUSINESS PAPERS 1 9 Financial Records n.d., 1939-1960 1 10 Lists of Paintings n.d. SUBJECT FILES 1 11 C.B.C. “Wednesday Night” Scripts 1950 1 12 Canadian Group of Painters n.d., 1957 1 13 Centennial Arts Conference, U.B.C. [1967] 2 Lawren S. Harris MG30-D208 Vol. File File Title Date 1 14 Cleaning and Handling Paintings 1950-[c.1955] 1 15 Dynamic Symmetry n.d. 1 16 Emily Carr Scholarship Fund 1954 1 17 The Federation of Canadian Artists and the Special Committee on 1944-1945 Reconstruction. Briefs 2 1 The Federation of Canadian Artists n.d., 1945 2 2 Bess Harris n.d., 1944-[1964] 2 3 Interviews n.d. 2 4 University of British Columbia, Fine Arts 1963-1964 2 5 The Writers’ Broadcasters’ and Artists’ n.d. War Council NOTEBOOKS 2 6 Notebook n.d., [c.1910- 1914] 2 7 Notebook 1922-1925 2 8 Notebook [1920s] 2 9 Notebook [1920s] 2 10 Notebook [1930s] 2 11 Notebook [early 1940s] 2 12 Notebook [early 1940s] 2 13 Notebook [early 1940s] 3 1 Notebook [early 1940s] 3 2 Notebook [early 1940s] 3 3 Notebook [1943] MG30-D208 Lawren S. Harris 3 Vol. File File Title Date 3 4 Notebook [1945] 3 5 Notebook [1945] 3 6 Notebook [1945] 3 7 Notebook [c.1945] 3 8 Notebook [c.1947] 3 9 Notebook [c.1947] 3 10 Notebook [1948] 3 11 Notebook [1950] 3 12 Notebook [1950] 4 1 Notebook [1954] 4 2 Notebook [1954] MANUSCRIPTS 4 3 “ABC of Abstract Painting” n.d. 4 4 Abstract Painting n.d. 4 5 “The Academic and the Creative” n.d. 4 6 “Art and Exploitation” n.d. 4 7 Art and History n.d. 4 8 “Art and Life” n.d. 4 9 “Art and Propaganda” n.d. 4 19 “Art as an Expression of the Values of its Day” n.d. 4 11 Art Gallery Directors n.d. 4 12 Art in Canada n.d. 4 13 “Art in Canada: An Informal History” (Part III) 1950 4 14 “Artist and Audience n.d. 4 Lawren S. Harris MG30-D208 Vol. File File Title Date 4 15 “The Artist and his Day” n.d. 4 16 Artist and Public n.d. 4 17 “Art is the Distillate of Life” n.d. 4 18 “The Artist’s Point of View” n.d. 4 19 Artist’s Role in Wartime n.d. 4 20 “The Arts and Divine Discontent” n.d. 4 21 “Basis of Art” n.d. 4 22 B.C. Binning n.d. 5 1 The Beautification of Ottawa as a National War Memorial 1945 5 2 “Canada and the Arts” n.d. 5 3 “Canadian Art” n.d. 5 4 “Canadian Art and Internationalism” n.d. 5 5 Capital and Labour n.d., 1905 5 6 Changing Ideologies n.d. 5 7 “Commercialism and Art” n.d. 5 8 “Community Centres for the Arts” n.d. 5 9 “Conditioning in Art” n.d. 5 10 “The Creative” n.d. 5 11 “The Creative Attitude” n.d. 5 12 “The Creative Individual and a New Order” n.d. 5 13 “Creative Individual and a New Order” n.d. 5 14 “Creative Life... an Interplay of Opposites” n.d., [1943] 5 15 Criticism n.d., [1953-1954] 5 16 “Democracy and Art” n.d. 5 17 “A Disquisition on Abstract Painting” [1954] 5 18 Emily Carr n.d. MG30-D208 Lawren S. Harris 5 Vol. File File Title Date 5 19 Europe and America n.d. 5 20 Experience n.d. 5 21 “Experience and Theory” n.d. 5 22 “Fallacies About Art” n.d. 5 23 Federation of Canadian Artists n.d. 6 1 Function of Art n.d. 6 2 “Goodwill” n.d. 6 3 Grants for Artists n.d. 6 4 Group of 7 n.d., [1932] 6 5 “Hints to Young Artists” n.d. 6 6 “Internationalism in Art” n.d. 6 7 “Interplay Life and Form” n.d. 6 8 Introduction to Book n.d. 6 9 “It Takes All Kinds to Make a World of Art” n.d. 6 10 Ivory Tower in Art n.d. 6 11 Letter Drafts n.d., 1944 6 12 “Limitation and Universal Life” n.d. 6 13 “Love and Art” n.d. 6 14 Miscellaneous Notes n.d. 6 15 “National Council of the Arts” n.d. 6 16 “Past and Future” n.d. 6 17 “Pattern” n.d. 6 18 “Personal and Impersonal” n.d. 6 19 “Philosophy and Art” n.d. 6 20 “A Piece of Being” n.d. 6 21 Poems n.d., [1923] 6 Lawren S. Harris MG30-D208 Vol. File File Title Date 6 22 “Reason and Perception” n.d. 6 23 “Reincarnation” n.d. 6 24 “Science and Art” n.d. 6 25 “Sectarianism in Art” n.d. 6 26 “The Seed in the Soil” n.d. 6 27 “Spirituality and Art” n.d. 6 28 “The Status of Canadian Painting and Sculpture” n.d. 6 29 “Strength” n.d. 6 30 “Structure and Reality” n.d. 6 31 “Symbolism and Art” n.d. 6 32 Theosophy n.d., [1925] 6 33 Theosophy and Art n.d. 6 34 “T.S. Eliot’s Tone Poem” n.d. 6 35 “Unconventional Artists” n.d. 6 36 “The Unheroic North. Four Plays by Merril (sic) Denison” n.d. 7 1 Vancouver Art Gallery n.d. 7 2 “Vicarious Atonement” n.d. 7 3 “What the Public Wants” [1954] 7 4 Woman’s Art Association n.d. 7 5 Women 1922 7 6 Works of Art n.d. 7 7 “Art, National and Universal” (not by Harris) 1929 7 8 Hedges, Doris. “The Citizen and his Child” 1944 7 9 Housser, Fred. “The Amateur Movement in Canadian Painting” 1929 TRANSCRIPTS OF MANUSCRIPTS MG30-D208 Lawren S. Harris 7 Vol. File File Title Date 7 10 Transcripts: Lists of Collections n.d. 7 11 Collections 1, 4, 7-8, 10, 16-18 (8 files) n.d. 8 1 Collections 19, 22-24, 26 (5 files) n.d. 8 2 Collection Red Book n.d. 8 3 Abstract Painting n.d. 8 4 Art Middle Section n.d. 8 5 Emily Carr n.d. 8 6 For Consideration n.d. 9 1 Loan Collection n.d. 9 2 Personal Comments n.d. 9 3 Rejects n.d. 9 4 Transcripts (6 files) n.d. 10 1 Transcripts (2 files) n.d. PRINTED MATERIAL Catalogues 10 2 Group of 7, C.S.P.W.C./S.C.P.E.E., Toronto Camera Club at Art 1930 Gallery of Toronto 10 3 Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Lawren Harris, Little Centre, 1946 Victoria 8 Lawren S.
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