Description:
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.
Brief description:
James King is the author of six novels and ten biographies, including books on David Milne, William Blake, Margaret Laurence, Jack McClelland, Farley Mowat, and Lawren Harris. His biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, James lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
Review Quotes: King's perspective is much more than the traditional description of an artist's output, parsed for clues pointing to stylistic influences and the development of a personal expressive mode. King does this, but he also lifts his subject's story by telling other truths about this complex, complicated man whose restraint and courage marked him as both an individual and a man of his times.-- "New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal"