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She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared
She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared

She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea, artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared

Date6/10/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: She switched: After oil paints gave her severe headaches and nausea; artist Lillian Sarafincham switched to acrylics and stopped heavy use of turpentine and her problems disappeared.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0104160F
She paints in acrylics, but artist Rita Letendre uses oil in her kitchen, especially when she's cooking her favorite Middle Eastern dishes
She paints in acrylics, but artist Rita Letendre uses oil in her kitchen, especially when she's cooking her favorite Middle Eastern dishes
2/29/1980
Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
1867
Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson, importers and wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medicines, chemicals; paints and colours, dry and in oil; sperm, lard, elephant, machinery, and other oils; spirits turpentine; paint brushes; varnishes; dye-stuffs; snuff; manufacturers of patent medicines, essences &c.
1867
Receipt of customer John Lauder Esq. Part of Morris Norman donation of business papers, 2002.
Bought of Dunspaugh & Watson drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, putty, colours, patent dryers, brushes of all kinds, varnishes, naval stores, dye-stuffs, glassware, artist materials, surgical instruments, patent medicines, perfumery, fancy goods, &c. &c.
1867
Formerly Dunspaugh & Watson. Receipt of customer John Lauder Esq. Part of Morris Norman donatio ...
Bought of J.L. Margach & Co., drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, putty, colours, patent dryers, brushes of all kinds, varnishes, naval stores, dye-stuffs, glassware, artist materials, surgical instruments, patent medicines, perfumery, fancy goods, &c. &c.
1870
Artist Janice Parkins paints one of her children
Artist Janice Parkins paints one of her children
9/2/1970
Toronto-born artist Judy Singer never paints same design twice on the dresses she creates
Toronto-born artist Judy Singer never paints same design twice on the dresses she creates
12/23/1977
Making waves: Rae Johnson has switched from depictions of urban life to landscape artistry like Sunset or Lake Winnipeg
Making waves: Rae Johnson has switched from depictions of urban life to landscape artistry like Sunset or Lake Winnipeg
6/15/1988
Illustration of a painter's palette with brushes. On the palette is an illustration of a man we ...
Collins Brothers, manufacturers of liquid paints, etc.
1884
On his wife's forehead, Salvador Dali paints the head of Medusa, one of the three snaky-haired Gorgon sisters who glance turned into stone everything (...)
On his wife's forehead, Salvador Dali paints the head of Medusa, one of the three snaky-haired Gorgon sisters who glance turned into stone everything (...)
10/27/1945
One of many: Cheryl Berthelotte paints a traditional Christ with Chalice window which is destined for a church in Alberta
One of many: Cheryl Berthelotte paints a traditional Christ with Chalice window which is destined for a church in Alberta
6/29/1990
Don Soloman and his 40-by-90-inch acrylic-on-canvas work Slow Roll, part of an exhibition of eight of the American-born artist's 'organic' paintings o(...)
Don Soloman and his 40-by-90-inch acrylic-on-canvas work Slow Roll, part of an exhibition of eight of the American-born artist's 'organic' paintings o(...)
1/29/1982