Ted Harrison
(1926 - 2015) Order of Canada
Artwork from the 1980s
TED HARRISON
Village Bell
colour serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1981 and inscribed “7/11 HC” in the lower margin; unframed
24 x 16 ins ( 61 x 40.6 cms ) ( subject )
TED HARRISON
Girl in Yellow Hat
acrylic on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1981 on the reverse
35.75 x 22.75 ins ( 90.8 x 57.8 cms )
TED HARRISON
Atlin Café
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1981 on the reverse
36 x 24 ins ( 91.4 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $11,800.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
TED HARRISON
Family; The Last Horizon (book)
colour serigraph; book
-”The Last Horizon: Ted Harrison” (Merritt Publishing Co. Ltd., Toronto and Vancouver, 1980 - signed and numbered A.P. 12/25)
-including ”Family” (colour serigraph, signed, dated 1981 and numbered A.P. 12/20 in the lower margin - 13 x 10.75 ins. [sheet], unframed);
13 x 10.75 ins ( 33 x 27.3 cms ) ( sheet )
TED HARRISON
The Village Road
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
48 x 36 ins ( 121.9 x 91.4 cms )
TED HARRISON
Bennett Walk
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
36 x 24 ins ( 91.4 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $15,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $29,900.00
Sale date: May 31st 2016
TED HARRISON
Family Outing
acrylic on canvas board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
24 x 20 ins ( 61 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $11,500.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
TED HARRISON
The Grecian House (Dawson City)
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
48 x 60 ins ( 121.9 x 152.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00
Price Realized $34,500.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
TED HARRISON
Deserted Memories
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse
18 x 24 ins ( 45.7 x 61 cms )
TED HARRISON
Walking Home
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1983 on the reverse
24 x 18 ins ( 61 x 45.7 cms )
TED HARRISON
A Winter Morning
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1983 on the reverse
17.75 x 23.75 ins ( 45.1 x 60.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $14,000.00 - $18,000.00
Price Realized $17,700.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
TED HARRISON
Design for “Caribou Hotel”
acrylic on paper
signed, titled and dated 1983 lower right
16 x 24 ins ( 40.6 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $15,600.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
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Ted Harrison Biography
(1926 - 2015) Order of Canada
Harrison was born in Durham County, Northern England in 1926. Ted attributed his early interest in art and design to the encouragement from his parents, particularly his mother who had an interest in fashion design and photography. In 1943, he enrolled in the West Hartlepool College of Art and began to study art and design, but like other young men at the time, his education was interrupted by National Service. He served with the British Army Intelligence Corps in India, Egypt and East Africa and after his release studied at the West Hatlepool College of Art where he graduated with his National Diploma in Design in 1950. The following year he was awarded the Art Teachers’ Diploma at Kings’ College of the University of Durham. He later travelled to the Far East and taught school in Malaya and New Zealand.
In 1967 he moved to Canada in a stage of travel on his way to New Zealand with his wife and son. They stopped at Carcross, Yukon Territory and decided to settle there. He taught at the Indian residential school and in 1970 was appointed the principal of the Carcross Territorial School. In 1970 as well, he held his first major exhibition in Canada at the Robertson Galleries, Ottawa. In the summer of 1971 he moved to Whitehorse to establish the first fine arts course in the Yukon and teach at the Yukon Vocational and Technical Training Centre.
Robert Smyth viewing his 1976 show in Ottawa noted, “On first arrival in the Yukon he felt dominated by the mountains. Like Lawren Harris, he has been inspired to create bold stripes of rhythm from their vastness. Often, great expansive skies are filled with this same churning rhythm, made all the more pulsating by the dissonant colour harmonies. ‘Deserted Village’, a few skeletal buildings arranged in front of wildly patterned mountains cape whose turbulence continues to work its way up into the sky above, in full of this vibration. Here colour and rhythm work to good advantage, creating an animated and well-controlled surface. The cadence colour and line is also well-handled in ‘Ross River Fire,’ where spiral tongues of liquid flames spew out angrily from a burning frame house. One forlorn figure holding a battered teddy bear looks. On from the surrounding snow. Somehow, the sentiment is unforced and sincere.”
After 1979, Harrison began to work as an artist full time. In 1993, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, where he lived the remainder of his life.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
