Lorne Harris & Lawren Harris, the same person?

[Sherrill Grace]

No--the ONLY correct spelling of the name is Lawren and yes he means the
Group of 7 painters' Lawren Harris.  The comment is somewhat out of date of
course!!
SG

P.S. An emily Carr painting just sold for close to 1 million at auction
last night--to a Canadian buyer too.  LH's prices at auction have never
soared so high.


At 08:52 AM 5/11/00 -0400, Geraldo Ferreira de Lima wrote:
>To the members of CANDrama:
>
>In Don Rubin's CANADIA THEATRE HISTORY, p. 147, in the article
>TOWARDS A CANADIAN THEATRE,  George Brodersen writes:
>"There are few Canadian playwrights or actors who are as well known in their
>field as Grove in the novel. Birney in Poetry or Lorne Harris in painting."
>
>I think that the "Lorne Harris" Brodersen is talking about is  "Lawren
>Stewart Harris" of the Group of Seven. If I am right, why did he write LORNE
>instead of LAWREN, Harris's real first name? Does it mean that Brodersen
>made a mispelling or is it a another way of spelling Harris's first name?
>
>All my best, and thanks in advance for your answer/s.
>
>Geraldo Ferreira de Lima
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