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Ron Bloore was born outside Toronto in 1925 and died in Toronto in 2009.
This site is dedicated to what he produced and how he made it all that way.

Introduction

Shows

Works

Album & Bio

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This 1964 Bloore ink drawing is now appearing Sept. 20 - Dec. 7 in In Search of a Loss of Self: The Language of Alterity At the McIntosh Gallery of the University of Western Ontario in London

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Meanwhile, back in Toronto appearing November 15 - 27 This classic Bloore from 1961 which sold at Moore in 2011 is going up for auction (lot 95) At the Cowley Abbott Fall Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art

	CONTENTS Part 1
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS   Commercial Ink and Iconography, Rumi Galleries, 2023 Lochhead / Bloore, Wallace Galleries, 2021 Untitled, Ron Bloore at Wallace Galleries, 2016 Five Decades, Moore Gallery Tribute, 2011 Ron Bloore, Wallace Galleries Tribute, 2011 Peter Pan Restaurant, Toronto, 2006-14 Small Works, Art Company, Toronto, 2003 Small Works, Winchester Gall. Victoria, 2003 Works on Paper, Meridian, San Francisco, 2003 Mixed Media on Paper, Moore Gallery, 1999 Bloore, Dorothy Cameron Gallery, Toronto 1965 Bloore, Here and Now Gallery, Toronto 1962 Public Sumi Ink Works at Peel Art Gallery, 2019 Works on Paper at Carleton University, 2008 Fragments of Infinity, Regina/Calgary, 2008 Bloore at 80, 1988-2005, Peterborough, 2005 Works on Paper, Gallery Lambton Sarnia, 2002 Bloore Drawings 1960-88, Peterborough, 1988 MacDonald Block Queen's Park, Toronto, 1976 R. L. Bloore, New Brunswick Art Museum 1965 Win Hedore, Mackenzie Gallery, 1960   (yellow links are recently added or updated pages)	MISCELLANY   Current Events   Introduction Brief Biography Portrait Photo Album Bloores at Home Show Your Bloores Quotable Quotes The Art Collector Not So Current Events Curriculum Vitae Exploring One Page Works With Colour Black Works Sunday Sketches Working Drawings Working Paintings About the Site / Contact FAQ's   COLLECTIONS McLaughlin Gallery	TEXTS   With Bloore Robert Enright at the Mackenzie, Regina, 1991 Eugene Knapik for Work Seen Magazine, 1991 Ron Moore for Community Television, 1988 Joan Murray's Unpublishable Interview, 1978 By Bloore Doug Morton Retrospective, Vancouver, 1994 Jan Gerrit Wyers Retrospective, Regina, 1989 Life and Role of the Artist, Keynote, 1983 Baker Lake Prints, Catalog Foreward, 1973 Folk Painters of the Cdn West: J. G. Wyers, 1960 Art in Canada, Canadian Art VIII #3, 1951 About Bloore Illi Tamplin, Bloore at 80, Paintings 1988-2005 Regina 5 Interviews at Not Without Design, 1991 TERRENCE HEATH, NOT WITHOUT DESIGN, 1991 D. Burnett, Masterpieces of Canadian Art, 1990 Illi Tamplin, R.L. Bloore, Drawings 1960-1988 Kay Kritzwiser, Tamplin Collection Donation, 1988 John Mays, Regina 5 in a High School Gym, 1981 T. A. Heinrich, Ron Bloore, New Directions, 1979 B. Lord, Bloore and Contemporary Criticism, 1966 Robert Fulford, Bloore at the Here and Now, 1962 Win Hedore, I Remember Dada, Time, Nov.7 1960 Hank Roest, Bloore's Dialectic, 2017

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ANNOUNCING THE ALL NEW WORKS PAGES The Works pages have multiplied and simplified Start your tour HERE

Part 2 WORKS Overview
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	EARLY SERIES 1954 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 1964 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   (white links are still to come)	MIDDLE SERIES 1975 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	LATE SERIES 1987 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

Part 3 CATALOG

THE RON BLOORE
(in)COMPLETE CATALOG
Raisonné (as they say)
is Under Construction

For research purposes, each known Bloore artwork is being numbered and indexed and has been or will be given its own catalog page here on the site. The catalog will soon be made accessible to museum curators, researchers, estate dealers and owners of Bloore artworks.

Note: The Colour Coded Borders (Not available on tablets or phones)

Everywhere on the site, the images have borders that light up when your cursor is hovered over them, for example, the thumbnails at the top and bottom of this page. Works with borders that light up blue are in the estate and for sale, those which light up green are in public collections and the red ones are in private or corporate collections.

Unfortunately this feature does NOT operate on tablets or phones because they do not use cursors.

The prevalence of blue borders in certain categories does not always indicate an abundance in the estate so much as a dearth of usable photographs of works elsewhere.

Introduction

Shows

Works

Album & Bio

CV