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Ship Of Dreams: Toronto artist Harold Town uses his first major show of oil paintings in eight years (it's at the Waddington Galleries) to neatly skewer artistic pretensions
Ship Of Dreams: Toronto artist Harold Town uses his first major show of oil paintings in eight years (it's at the Waddington Galleries) to neatly skewer artistic pretensions

Ship Of Dreams: Toronto artist Harold Town uses his first major show of oil paintings in eight years (it's at the Waddington Galleries) to neatly skewer artistic pretensions

Date5/12/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ship Of Dreams: Toronto artist Harold Town uses his first major show of oil paintings in eight years (it's at the Waddington Galleries) to neatly skewer artistic pretensions.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0085197F
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