1988-90
The Grand Diptyches
And a Triptych for the National Gallery

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1988 Untitled No.2 (880020830) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite
Art Gallery of Hamilton Permanent Collection

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1989 Untitled No.9 (890090110) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite
McMaster University, Permanent Collection, Hamilton ON

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1989 Untitled No.14 (890140223) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite

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1989 Untitled No.18 (890180328) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite
Private Collection

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1989 Untitled No.21 (890210508) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite
McKenzie Art Gallery, Permanent Collection, Regina SK

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1989 Untitled No.27 (890271108) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite

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1989 Untitled No.29 (900290114) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite

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1989 Untitled No.31 (900310827) 3@96x48" 3@244x122cm, oil on masonite
National Gallery of Canada, Permanent Collection, Ottawa

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1990 Untitled No.34 (900341229) 2@96x48" 2@244x122cm, oil on masonite
Private Collection

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8-by-8's in the first big Adelaide St studio

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At the completion of each work, a new easel for the next was erected...

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Still, it was always nice to have some earlier works on display too.

In 1990 the MacKenzie Gallery, Ron's old gallery, in Regina organized the very large retrospective called Not Without Design which included many very large paintings, indeed climaxed with a number of these 8-foot by 8-foot diptyches. The catalog essay of that show is here. It took up most of the gallery and it took up most of each of the five major galleries it travelled to. But the three galleries in the country which are larger than the Mackenzie (rather predictably you might say) would not be persuaded to host the show.

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1988 No. 4 Peace Stars for Vince, donated to Casey House Hospice who recently
auctioned it away and 1988 No. 2 now at the Art Gallery of Hamilton

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