A Row of Houses, Wellington Street (Street Painting I), 1910

Oil on canvas

25 x 30 in
63.5 x 76.2 cm

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Provenance

The Artist;

Bess Harris (Mrs. Lawren S. Harris);

L.S.H. Holdings, Ltd.

Laing Galleries, Toronto.

The Art Emporium, Vancouver.

The Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin.

Exhibitions

Toronto, Ontario Society of Artists, 39th Exhibition, 1911, no. 88.

Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, 1911, no. 137.

Winnipeg, Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition, 1912, no. 79.

Toronto, Retrospective Loan Exhibition of the Works of Members of the Ontario Society of Artists, 1922, no. 77.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Lawren Harris Paintings, 1910-1948, 1948, no. 1.

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Lawren Harris Retrospective Exhibition, June 7 - September 8, 1963, no. 1

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, The Group of Seven / Le Groupe des Sept, June 19 - September 8, 1970, no. 23.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930, January 14-February 26, 1978, no. 17.

Toronto, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada's 150 Years, April 1- April 30, 2017.

Literature

Notes on Pictures at the O.S.A. Exhibition [1911], n.p..
J. Russell Harper, Painting in Canada: A History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969, repr. in colour, p. 271.
Bess Harris and R.G.P. Cosgrove, eds., Lawren Harris, Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1969, repr. in colour, pl. 136.
Dennis Reid, The Group of Seven/Le Groupe des Sept, Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970, p. 56, repr. pl. 23.
Peter Cummings, "Vancouver: Lawren Harris, The Art Emporium, November 1-23, 1976," Artscanada 33:4 (December 1976 - January 1977), repr. p.60.
Jeremy Adamson, Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978, p. 29; 31, repr. pl. 27.
Peter Larisey, S.J., Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris’s Work and Life — An Interpretation, Toronto & Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1993, pp. 22-23.
John Murray, Lawren Harris: An Introduction to His Life and Art, Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, p. 15-16, repr. in colour, p. 17.
David Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, repr. in colour. 137.
Paul Duval, Lawren Harris: Where the Universe Sings, Toronto: Cerebrus Publishing, 2011, p. 50, repr. in colour, p. 51.
Jason McBride, "The Mystic," Toronto Life Magazine, (July, 2016), p. 48, repr. in color, p. 49.