Lowrie Warrener

Lowrie Warrener (January 29, 1900 – February 2, 1983) was a Canadian painter who was a pioneer of modernism, along with Kathleen Munn and Bertram Brooker.

Biography Warrener was inspired to begin painting when he met Arthur Lismer at a 1920 exhibition hosted by the Sarnia Women’s Conservation Committee at the Sarnia Carnegie Library. He was initially influenced by the Group of Seven's colour and style. In 1921, he left Sarnia for Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art, to study sculpture and painting.

About 1925, he discovered the book Art by Clive Bell (1914) and read it with enthusiasm.

When Warrener was eighty-two, he spoke of his lack of knowledge when he chose to paint abstractly. Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa