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Painter Norval Morriseau used to sell a 4-by-6-foot canvas for $5 for aa bottle of wine in his bad days but I don't need an alcohol high or a drug hig(...)
Painter Norval Morriseau used to sell a 4-by-6-foot canvas for $5 for aa bottle of wine in his bad days but I don't need an alcohol high or a drug hig(...)

Painter Norval Morriseau used to sell a 4-by-6-foot canvas for $5 for aa bottle of wine in his bad days but I don't need an alcohol high or a drug hig(...)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Painter Norval Morriseau used to sell a 4-by-6-foot canvas for $5 for aa bottle of wine in his bad days but I don't need an alcohol high or a drug high any more. I'm on a natural high. He's returned to a cabin in the northern town where he was born and I've stopped running. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0069569F
Miss G. I. Lailey of Napanee. Archibald Barnes, foremost Canadian portrait painter, whose splendid canvas of Aemilius Jarvis, Sr., is hung on the line(...)
Miss G. I. Lailey of Napanee. Archibald Barnes, foremost Canadian portrait painter, whose splendid canvas of Aemilius Jarvis, Sr., is hung on the line(...)
5/18/1934
Painter Andre Bieler, 81, offers a description of his canvas, Early Spring In The Laurentians, to a visitor to The Laurentians: Painters In A Landscap(...)
Painter Andre Bieler, 81, offers a description of his canvas, Early Spring In The Laurentians, to a visitor to The Laurentians: Painters In A Landscap(...)
11/24/1977
Good vibes. Indian artist Norval Morriseau is at work in the Tom Thomson home at the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg, where he says he's getting vibrat(...)
Good vibes. Indian artist Norval Morriseau is at work in the Tom Thomson home at the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg, where he says he's getting vibrat(...)
7/12/1979
Sandy Wildman: Painter says she's fascinated with faces and will often fill an entire canvas with one
Sandy Wildman: Painter says she's fascinated with faces and will often fill an entire canvas with one
3/4/1982
Two-year-old Jackson Mullins, left, and Megan Givens, 4, answer the call of the canvas during Spanish Festival Day at Harbourfront Centre yesterday. T(...)
Two-year-old Jackson Mullins, left, and Megan Givens, 4, answer the call of the canvas during Spanish Festival Day at Harbourfront Centre yesterday. T(...)
9/7/1992
Swiss twist: This 65-foot canvas sofa, manufactured at the Scarborough firm, Sede-Nienkemper Manufacturing Inc
Swiss twist: This 65-foot canvas sofa, manufactured at the Scarborough firm, Sede-Nienkemper Manufacturing Inc
11/28/1979
Salute to the Queen's Silver Jubilee is the title of Joe Mendelson's acrylic canvas which can be seen at Gallery One, 3557 Bathurst St., until Jan. 6.(...)
Salute to the Queen's Silver Jubilee is the title of Joe Mendelson's acrylic canvas which can be seen at Gallery One, 3557 Bathurst St., until Jan. 6.(...)
12/9/1977
But is it art? Put me in front of canvas and I paint, says actor Tony Curtis, whose work will be sold at the planned World Gallery of the Stars in Yor(...)
But is it art? Put me in front of canvas and I paint, says actor Tony Curtis, whose work will be sold at the planned World Gallery of the Stars in Yor(...)
3/5/1991
Saving city hall on canvas, Lawyers leaving Osgoode Hall for lunch stop to study the work of artist Guttorn Otto as he puts the old city hall on canvas
Saving city hall on canvas, Lawyers leaving Osgoode Hall for lunch stop to study the work of artist Guttorn Otto as he puts the old city hall on canvas
12/29/1965
A bomb threat followed realtor Ernest Ferguson's announcement that he was reducing his commission on house sales from 5 or 6 per cent to 4 per cent. The Leaside realtor suspects the call may have come from one of 9,191 other men and women who sell real es
A bomb threat followed realtor Ernest Ferguson's announcement that he was reducing his commission on house sales from 5 or 6 per cent to 4 per cent. The Leaside realtor suspects the call may have come from one of 9,191 other men and women who sell real es
5/14/1976
'Duke of york in camp', The Duke of York making a tour of inspection of his camp at Southwold, Suffolk, where public school and working class boys are spending a week under canvas as his guests
'Duke of york in camp', The Duke of York making a tour of inspection of his camp at Southwold, Suffolk, where public school and working class boys are spending a week under canvas as his guests
8/26/1931
William Ronald with one of his three-canvas paintings at dunkelman Gallery
William Ronald with one of his three-canvas paintings at dunkelman Gallery
2/24/1970