Ted Harrison
(1926 - 2015) Order of Canada
Artwork from the 1980s
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
TED HARRISON
The Balloon
colour serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1984 and numbered 26/130
16.25 x 25.25 ins ( 41.3 x 64.1 cms ) ( subject )
TED HARRISON
Kluane National Park
colour serigraph
signed, titled, dated 1985, and numbered 10/100 in the lower margin; unframed
22.5 x 29.5 ins ( 57.2 x 74.9 cms ) ( sheet )
TED HARRISON
Evening Boat
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1985 on the reverse
18 x 24 ins ( 45.7 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $9,440.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
TED HARRISON
The Eagles
colour lithograph
signed, titled, dated 1985 and editioned “A.P. VIII/XV” in the lower margin; unframed
28.75 x 22.5 ins ( 73 x 57.2 cms ) ( sheet )
TED HARRISON
Hurrah for Spring
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1986 on the reverse
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $19,200.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2021
TED HARRISON
Delivery Day
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1986 on the reverse
15 x 20 ins ( 38.1 x 50.8 cms )
TED HARRISON
Bathurst Inlet; Duchess
two serigraphs
“Bathurst Inlet” (signed, titled, dated 1987 and numbered 130/150 in the lower margin; 22.5 x 29 inches [sheet]); unframed;
“Duchess” (signed, titled, dated 1987 and numbered 130/150 in the lower margin; 29.25 x 22.5 inches [sheet]); unframed (matted)
29.25 x 22.25 ins ( 74.3 x 56.5 cms ) ( each sheet )
TED HARRISON
Bringing Home the Tree
acrylic on paper
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1988 and inscribed “#15” and “Christmas time has arrived and in the North one can often collect a tree close by. Here one need not dream of a while Christmas as the snow remains crisp and white. Snow gives the land a mangle of cleanliness and purity” on the reverse of the accompanying card; unframed
14.5 x 11 ins ( 36.8 x 27.9 cms ) ( sheet )
TED HARRISON
Carcross Winter
colour lithograph
signed, titled, dated 1989 and numbered 158/165 in the lower margin; unframed
22.5 x 29.25 ins ( 57.2 x 74.3 cms ) ( sheet )
TED HARRISON
Monty’s Glacier; Sledding
two serigraphs
“Monty’s Glacier” (signed, titled, dated 1989 and numbered 63/500 in the lower margin; 10.25 x 17.5 inches [sheet]); unframed;
“Sledding” (signed, titled, dated 1989 and numbered 49/200 in the lower margin; 10.25 x 17.5 inches [subject]); unframed (matted)
10.25 x 17.5 ins ( 26 x 44.5 cms ) ( each sheet )
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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
