Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright rare books First published in 1994

First published in 1994

Snow attended the Ontario College of Art and specialized in design while he played piano in a jazz group and developed his painting skills independently

scraping and burnishing images

As tough and unyielding as the sport itself and as aggressive and strategic as a general at war

and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree

Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright rare books First published in 19948vo. pp. xii, 298. colour & b w illustrations. bibliography. index. cloth. dw. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, [2010]. New. ISBN: 9781554581825 Robert Markle (19361990) was an infamous figure on the Canadian cultural scene for almost three decades. His paintings and drawings celebrating the female nude were deemed obscene by Ontario courts in 1965, and Markle defended them on national television, emphasizing what he considered a crucial