Canada 1885 - 1970 Lawren Harris was a Canadian landscape painter, member and financier of the Canadian art movement called the Group of Seven. Harris was born in a family recently made wealthy through the invention and production of farm machinery: this circumstance created lifelong material security for the artist.
His family was strongly religious, so he inherited a commitment to spiritual truth. Since Harris was a child, he showed an interest in drawing. His artistic talent was noticed and encouraged by his parents. At 19, in 1904, he went to Berlin where he privately studied art for three years. His training was academic, focusing on the problem of composition, light, construction of volumes, perspective, as his first sketches of the Berlin streets shown.