The Idea of North: A Conversation with Steve Martin, Adam Gopnik, and Eric Fischl
• Steve Martin, actor, writer, musician, art collector, guest curator of “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” • Eric Fischl, artist • Adam Gopnik, essayist, staff writer for The New Yorker • Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A conversation about pioneering modernist Lawren Harris. The event took place as an exhibition of approximately 30 iconic works, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," is on view at the MFA. The artist's visionary paintings of the northern Canadian landscape have become icons of 20th-century Canadian art, and his work exists in dialogue with American modern artists. “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with generous support from Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay, and David and Victoria Croll. “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is co-organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and curated by Steve Martin.
• Steve Martin, actor, writer, musician, art collector, guest curator of “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” • Eric Fischl, artist • Adam Gopnik, essayist, staff writer for The New Yorker • Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A conversation about pioneering modernist Lawren Harris. The event took place as an exhibition of approximately 30 iconic works, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," is on view at the MFA. The artist's visionary paintings of the northern Canadian landscape have become icons of 20th-century Canadian art, and his work exists in dialogue with American modern artists. “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with generous support from Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay, and David and Victoria Croll. “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is co-organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and curated by Steve Martin.