WILLIAM RONALD "ZACHARY" 1992-93Prolific and polemic, William Ronald (1926 1998) is one of the most accomplished and collected artists associated with the Painters Eleven group. Frustrated by the lack of representation of abstract painting, Ronald was pivotal in the founding of Painters Eleven in 1953. Their first show in 1954 was the first major commercial display of abstract art in Toronto to date. In addition to pioneering the Modernism movement within Canada, Ronald was also

Ronald used a vocabulary of symbols

he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with these works

and other models of Polaroid cameras

This work is from the "Exotic Birds"

around the age of 50

Pootoogook has rendered each element in her signature delicate but intentional style

"Murphy the Wonder Dog"

Framed with  UV-protected plexiglass

further enhancing the uplifting motifs in this vein of his work

The piece presents a rare opportunity to acquire one of the thirty canvases created during this brief and highly distinctive period of production

scrubbing the Magna paint he used into the unprimed canvas

remembered