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Whitby Free Press, 25 Jul 1990, p. 10

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PAGE 10, WHJTY FREE PREMS WEDNESDAY, JULY2510 Atribute to Robert Markle at McLaughilin As a tribute to Robert Markle, the Robert McLaughlin Gafllery will display'Fafling Figure Series r 1964, an early work by Marle, in its front lobby. The Toronto artist died in an automobile accident on Thursday, July 5. Hie was 53. Markle attended the Ontario College of Art and was a niember of the Artist's Jazz Band. e. Marle, always outfpoken, created revealing, erotic and sensual figures. A strong proponent of the burlesque club, he feit that the difference between eroticiom and pornography was beauty. Markle said: "P'm not motivated by tissue, the skeleton, or muscles or any of that stuif. %m motivated bv the aliveness, the enormous energies, electricities and excitement of the figure."e The Robert McLaughlin Gallery owns a number of works on paper by Markle from the 1960os which were done at the Victory Burlesque.' The galery was also given the panels that the artist was Markleangeloe Resturant in CLAREMON RICI IMOND MARKI-4PM HWY. 7 Cr m zPICKERING WHITBY PARK HOURS: Weekdays 1O0:OOa.m.- 5:OOp.m. Weekends & Holidays 1O00.OOm. -7:00p.mi. ~ 649m3334 Toronto in 1981. John Bentley Mays sculpture that il; '%honky-tonk Baroque" said Of I was verson the a Lof the -Sistine UChapel. The imaginative panels depict winged figures and cows amid neon tubing. Pet therapy display continues A 'Pet Therapy' display will continue at the Whiitby Public Iàbrary until July 31. Marge Jacobsen. of Catkin Kennels in Whitby handles about 30 goden retrievers which work in health facilities in Canada and the U.S. Each year, she selects five or six of hier purebred pupies for placement into healtfaIities. Honey' is a canine companion for residents of Fairview Lodge in Un Yer Jacobsen's program the dog becomes a 'resident' of' the PI'. '4 c faciliy h hospita or nursing homespays fo its upkeep and selects a iMing taff member to become the do7s ke epier.min The simple actofsokga do g*i excellent therapy for an arthrtic hand and cari often lower high blood pressure. A stroke victim may use a partially paralyzed arm when reaching for a dog. Some of the more confused Alzheimer patienta can focus in on a dog. Information and photographa about the pet therapy program are in the lobby of the library. SUMMER. SPECIAL 7-11 POOLS 45 DAY JULY SALE, Additional Inground Pools At Reduced Rates 51 Bo k . .,Whtb Cl41-66-40 A DAY THIS WEEKEND!1

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