Publication
Robert Harris: Figure Work
Charlottetown artist Robert Harris' historic painting The Fathers of Confederation earned him fame throughout Canada and a huge number of portrait commissions during his lifetime (1847-1919). This prolific artist also painted genre scenes and produced hundreds of sketches, prints and watercolours of daily life in the provinces. But it is in his figure work that we see the Robert Harris who yearned to follow the great historical artists of Europe, particularly in the study of classical forms, and in that cornerstone of the European tradition in art: the nude figure painting. In his early years, Harris attended Life Classes in Boston, London and Paris, and continued to study the nude figure throughout his career, both in Europe and in Canada. He taught Life Classes himself in Montreal, and was a founding member and eventual President of the Royal Canadian Academy, in which the traditions of European art training were combined with increasing recognition of the need to support Canadian artists at home.
- Artist(s)
- Publication Credits
- Subject(s)
- Year
- ISBN
- Format
- Language
- Exhibition Title
- Robert Harris
- Susan Gibson Garvey
- Drawing, Painting
- 1993
- 0-7703-0674-8
- book
- English
- Robert Harris: Figure Work, 5 March - 11 April 1993
