Ronald Bloore was known in the Canadian art scene as the modernist ‘white’ painter from Saskatchewan given his masterful use of a monochromatic white palette. This large untitled composition features three distinct shapes in ‘white on white’ with star-like detailing appearing throughout the work. A life-long University professor of both art and archaeology, Bloore’s exploration of white paint was inspired by his extensive travels abroad. His paintings recall the ethereal white light that illuminated the shapes of white-washed churches he saw near the Aegean Sea.

Bloore was the founder of the ‘Regina Five,’ a group of acclaimed Saskatchewan abstract painters group who exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in 1961. “[My paintings] are fragments of infinity.” Ronald Bloore

(1925-2009) “White from the beginning for Ronald Bloore has always had the equivalences of light, of primal energy, of intellectual clarity, of immanence.” Theodore Heinrich, art curator Born in Brampton, Ontario,

Bloore studied Art and Archaeology from the University of Toronto (1949), and at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1949-1951); at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1953); at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (1955-1957) and received honorary doctorates from York University and the University of Regina. Bloore taught art at many Canadian universities and had many public commissions including a mural for Dorval International Airport (1968). He is a member of the Order of Canada (1993).