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Selected Solo exhibitions: 1989 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . Ontario 1991 Rodman Hall. St Catharines , Ontario . Figures and Landscapes 1991 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . Ontario 1991 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa . Ontario 1991 Canadian Art Galleries . Calgary . Alberta 1991 La Folie des Arts, Pointe-au-Pic , Quebec 1992 Grande Prairie Art Gallery., Grande Prairie , Alberta 'Ten Year Survey'. 1992 Canadian Art Galleries . Calgary . Alberta - New Figurative Work. 1993 Galerie Woltjen Edmonton. Alberta 'Five year Survey.' 1993 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . Ontario 1994 Canadian Art Galleries . Calgary . 'Off Connemara', new landscapes. 1997 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa . Ontario - Western Art of RFM.McInnis 1938 Portraits of the Prairies. Assiniboia Gallery, Regina . Sask. 1998 Portraits of the Prairies, Assiniboia /Bessborough, Saskatoon , Sask. 1999 Figure Paintings, Leighton Centre, Calgary , Alberta 1999 'The Roads That Lead There', Leighton Centre, Calgary , Alberta 2000 Feature, Grand Opening, Art and Soul Gallery, High River , Alberta . 2001 New Works, Masters Gallery, Calgary , 2001 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa , 40 Years a Painter. 2002 Masters Gallery, Calgary , 40 Years a Painter. 2004-2007 'A' is for Alberta 'AFA travelling show, curated by Edmonton Art Gallery . Alberta 's Centennial show 26 paintings. 2005 The Front Gallery, Edmonton , Alberta , Retrospect of Figures. 2006 Mayberry Fine Art, Summer Feature, Winnipeg , Manitoba . 2007 Roberts Gallery , Toronto , Ontario . - New Works 2007 Masters Gallery, Calgary , Alberta . 'A' is for Alberta 'Exhibition 2008 The Front Gallery, Edmonton , Alberta - New Works 2008 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa , Ontario - New Works
Selected Group Exhibitions: 1990 'Spaces andPlaces.' Alberta Art Foundation, Japan . 1990 Ring Gallery, Saint John , N.B. 'Artist in the Garden' 1993 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . Watercolour Show. 1993 Faculty of Extention, University of Alberta , Edmonton .'Masterful Drawings' show. 1994 Ring Gallery, Saint John , N.B. 'Artist In the Garden' 1995 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . 'Artist's Choice'. 1995 Roberts Gallery , Toronto , 'Sketches and Major Landscapes Show'. 1995 Roberts Gallery , Toronto . 'Three Alberta Artists' - McInnis, McLean, Sinclair. 1995 Leighton Foundation, Calgary , Alberta 1996 'Artists in Transition' Duma, McInnis, More. Leighton Foundation, Calgary , Alberta 1996 AFA COLLECTS' travelling exhibition to Dec. 1998 - Southern Alberta Region. 1997 Roberts Gallery , Toronto , Ont. 'Sketches and Tom Roberts'. 1997 MacKenzie Art Gallery , Regina , Sask .'Treasured Moments'James Kurtz Memorial Exhibition 1997 'The Best of our Workshops', Leighton Foundation, Calgary . 1998 Collection Alberta Art, 25 Years, AFA Collection - Triangle Gallery, Calgary , AB 1998 Prairie Sentinels, The Vanishing Grain Elevator. Kinderdine Gallery, U of S, Saskatoon , Saskatchewan . 1999 Grain Elevators -'Finding Our Way Home' Provincial Museum of Alberta . 1999 - 2002 Grain Elevators - Travelling Show throughout Alberta 2000 Artist's Choice, Roberts Gallery, Toronto , Ontario 2000 Artist's Choice, Masters Gallery, Calgary , Alberta 2000 Rural Route (AFA Collection) Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery ,Blairmore , Alberta . 2001 Group Shows, Art and Soul Gallery, High River , Alberta . Grand Opening Show, Gust Gallery, Waterton Park , Alberta 2002 Group Shows, Art and Soul Gallery, High River , Alberta . Group Show, Gust Gallery, Waterton Park , Alberta . Artist's Choice. Roberts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 2003 Group Shows, Art and Soul Gallery, High River . Alberta . Images of the West - Bell , Lougheed-Sinclair, McInnis, - Roberts Gallery Toronto , Ont Grand Opening Show, Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg , Manitoba . Duma, Laycock, McInnis, Nolin. Gust Gallery, Lethbridge , Alberta . 2004 McInnis, Davies, Graff, Stehelin. Whyte Museum , Banff , Alberta . 2005 Collectors Show. Leighton Centre, Calgary , Alberta . 2006 Celebration of the Figure, The Front Gallery, Edmonton , Alberta . 2006 Plug-In Gallery, Fabulous Fakes: Pop art with a Twist, Winnipeg , Manitoba 2007-2008 Traveling show Rêves d'automne Art Festival - Baie Saint-Paul, Quebec 2007 December Choice Exhibition, Wallack Galleries, Ottawa , Ontario . 2008 Coast to Coast (10 Artists) Roberts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Collections: RFM Mclnnis paintings can be found in the following public collections: * Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton , Alberta . * Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montréal, Québec. * Canadiana Fund, (Residences of the Governor General), Ottawa , Ontario . * Edmonton Art Gallery , Edmonton , Alberta . * Hart House, U of T, Toronto , Ontario . * Glenbow Museum , Calgary , Alberta . * Government House, Edmonton , Alberta . * Leighton Foundation, Calgary , Alberta . * Library and Archives Canada , Ottawa , Ontario * MacKenzie Gallery , Regina , Saskatchewan . * Medicine Hat Art Gallery , Medicine Hat , Alberta . * Moncton Museum , Moncton , N.B. * New Brunswick Museum , Saint John , N.B. * Nickle Art Museum , U of C, Calgary , Alberta . * Office of the Chief Justice of Canada , Ottawa , Ontario . * Parliamentry Restaurant, Parliament Buildings , Ottawa , Ontario . * Progressive Conservative National Headquarters, Ottawa , Ontario . * Rideau Club, Ottawa , Ontario . * Red Deer College Collection, Red Deer , Alberta . * Red Deer and District Museum , Red Deer , Alberta . * Rodman Hall, St Catharines , Ontario . * Royal Alberta Museum , Edmonton , Alberta . * Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies . and in many private and corporate collections across Canada
Publications: - Canada 's Who's Who lists publications as 'author The Renegade's Lament' Poem 1973 Fiddlehead Press; co author 'Toronto We Love You' The Brunswick House' drawings and poems, 1973 (Simon & Pierre Publishers); 'Steel & Steam' series train paintings, text by Pierre Berton (published by Laurier St-James, Montreal , Quebec )”. - Additional, Photos and articles in BranchLine Magazine, Ottawa , on railway related Canadian history (20 years, current). - Rail related photos and articles in Canadian Railway Modeller Magazine, Winnipeg , Manitoba , (15 years, current). - Monthly column 'The Chronicle' dealing with art issues. (No longer extant.) - Unpublished manuscript, 'Crossing Canada', about painting trains across Canada and the history of railway art in Canada . - Former newspaper reporter, Evening Times Globe and Telegraph Journal, Saint John, N.B. Daily newspaper, 1961-1962. Freelance writing for various newspapers since. - The National Archives of Canada has acquired - and the Canadian Cultural Properties Export Review Board has approved as being of 'outstanding significance and national importance' - the RFM McInnis fonds 1960-1991 and the RFM McInnis fonds 1957-1999 '1.48 meters of textual records (his on going journals, correspondence, and other materials documenting his life, career and travels'.
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