Two people at the Art Gallery of Ontario admire the powerful painting Miner’s Houses, Glace Bay by Lawren Harris.  Harris painted this scene purely on imagination using what he felt was the desolate atmosphere of Glace Bay and the brutal conditions of a mining town.  It is the most theatrical of all Harris’ house pictures and, perhaps, the darkest.  The painting was first shown in the 1926 Group of Seven exhibition and commentators noted the brooding solemnity and likened the rows of houses to rows of grave markers layed out for the miners.

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Oil on Gessobord

6 x 6 Inches

2023

SOLD