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Canadian painter

Bess Larkin Housser Harris
BornBess Larkin
1890 (1890)
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Died1969 (aged 78–79)
Vancouver, Canada
Known forPainter
Spouses
F. B. Housser ​(m. 1914⁠–⁠1934)​
Lawren Harris ​(m. 1934)​

Bess Larkin Housser Harris (1890–1969) was a Canadian painter who participated in Group of Seven exhibitions and was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

Biography

Bess Larkin was born in Brandon, Manitoba. She attended Havergal College in Toronto, Ontario. Bess married F. B. Housser in 1914. The two eventually divorced when Bess discovered Housser's affair with the artist Yvonne McKague, and in 1934 Bess married Lawren Harris. After her marriage to Lawren Harris the two spent time in the United States. In 1940 they moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Harris did not have a formal art education, but she did take painting lessons from Frederick Varley. Throughout the 1920s she participated, when invited, to Group of Seven shows. In 1926, Harris participated in the Wembley show in England, and in 1930 her work was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

Harris contributed articles about art to the Canadian Bookman between 1923 and 1926.

Harris died in 1969 in Vancouver.

Record sale prices

At the Heffel Auction, Canadian, Impressionist & Modern Art, Nov. 2024, LOT 113, Near Moraine Lake, oil on canvas, 44 x 54 3/4 in, 111.8 x 139.1 cm, Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000 CAD, Sold for: $133,250 (including Buyer's Premium).

References

  1. ^ "Harris, Bess Larkin Housser". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. Milroy, Sarah, ed. (2021). Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. p. 105. ISBN 9781773271194.
  3. ^ "Bess Larkin Housser Harris". Heffel Fine Art. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. "Lawren Harris". The Art History Archive - Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. "Lots". www.heffel.com. Heffel Auction House, Nov. 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.

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