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Barbara Hunter. Osborne worked prolifically and exhibited extensively across Canada in the following years, showing a further four works in subsequent Winter Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, in 1957, 1958 and again in 1960.
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paid tribute to her life and works in a retrospective memorial exhibition at the New
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