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

90,000+ works. 450 cartons. 300 crates. One remarkable team. 📦 While the McMichael building undergoes a once-in-a-generation redevelopment, our Collections, Conservation, Tech Services and Library & Archives teams have been hard at work on a full collection decantation — carefully relocating one of Canada's great art collections, one work at a time. Get an inside look at the process — and meet the dedicated team making it happen — in a new article from McMichael Magazine. → mcmichael.com/from-the-archi…