Autumn in Algoma. 🍂 Lawren Harris painted 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 (c. 1923) during his time in Ontario's Algoma District — a region that elicited some of his most sensuous and warm work, a world away from the stark grandeur of his later Lake Superior and Arctic scenes. In the foreground we see a stand of tree trunks, mostly bare but for a few colourful boughs of abstracted foliage. Beyond lies an expansive lake, rendered in a broad swath of delicately modulated colour, and in the distance, the forested hill is but a collection of uniform shapes standing in for trees. Harris’s unadorned vista evokes a feeling of calm, expressing the spiritual resonance he would increasingly strive for in his works Lawren S. Harris (1885–1970), 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦, c. 1923, oil on canvas, 82.5 x 102.8 cm, Gift of Colonel R.S. McLaughlin, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1968.7.5 © Family of Lawren S. Harris