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1988-90
The Grand Diptyches

   

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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.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


   

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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


1988-90
series page

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WORKS PERIOD PAGES

Before ’64 Early Days
1964 to ’74 White on White
1975 to ’87 Back to Toronto
1987 to ’99 Synthesis
2000 to ’07 Anti-synthesis

MODE OVERVIEWS

Works on Paper
Small Maquettes
Black Works
Works With Colour
Sploore Sculptures

MISCELLANEOUS

Sunday Sketches
1975-76 Sketches
Working Drawings
Oil Working Drawings
SERIES PAGES

’54 TO ’64
pre-’58 abstracts
58-59 enamels
59-60 relief
60-61 signs
61-62 mandalas
62-63 white lines
60-63 others
59-63 drawings

’64 TO ’74
64-66 after Egypt
67-68 murals
67-70 after Regina
70-74 after Cape Dorset
67-74 maquettes
64-68 drawings
70-72 sploores
SERIES PAGES

’75 TO ’87
75-76 byzantine lights
77-80 Sackvilles
79-83 stick relief
83-84 chasubles
80-84 stick chasubles
85-86 assemblages

78-79 Sackvilles on paper
1980 mixed media on paper
80-83 sumi ink on paper
80-81 gouaches on paper
1982 chasuble sketches
85-86 template drawings
1987 paper collages

80-83 small inkworks
80-81 large inkworks
80-83 very large inkworks
80-81 extra large inkworks
SERIES PAGES

’87 TO ’99
87-88 the X's
88-90 grand diptyches
91-93 squares continue
93-94 4-by-4's continue
1994 inkworks on paper
94-97 white white gold
97-98 brushed lines
98-99 News Series I

2000 TO ’07
2000 New Series II
01-02 move to Spadina
2003 back on the horse
2004 late series begin
04-05 back to the square
05-06 an old man's style
06-07 the Yellow Series
2007 the Last Series
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