Bess Larkin Housser Harris

Bess Larkin Housser Harris
Born Bess Larkin
1890 (1890)
Manitoba, Canada
Died 1969 (aged 78–79)
Vancouver, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Known for Painting
Spouse(s)
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.[1]

Biography

Bess Larkin was born in 1890 in Manitoba.[1] She attended Havergal College in Toronto.[1] 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.[2][3] After her marriage to Lawren Harris the two spent time in the United States.[4] 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.[2] Throughout the 1920s she exhibited at Group of Seven shows.[1] 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.[2] She was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

Harris contributed articles about art to the Canadian Bookman between 1923 and 1926.[1]

Harris died in 1969 in Vancouver.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Harris, Bess Larkin Housser". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bess Larkin Housser Harris". Heffel Fine Art. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Bess Larkin Housser Harris". Arctic Experience McNaught Gallery. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Lawren Harris". The Art History Archive - Canadian Art. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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