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Onoko (Lower Falls) is installed at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada,
for David L. Cohen’s tenure as Ambassador.

LINK to some of the other 41 Paquette paintings which the U.S. State Department has displayed
in exhibitions at 21 diplomatic facilities on five continents.

This triad of paintings, Light in the World, was commissioned for the
new headquarters of an international philanthropic organization in 2022.

The Georgia Museum of Art recently acquired Reckoning after the Flood, oil on linen, 40 x 48 inches,
a key work from the traveling solo museum exhibition about the Mississippi River, America’s River Re-Explored.
It joins two other smaller works in the collection.
The GMoA hosted Vibrant Excursions in 2000, a one-man exhibition of Paquette’s paintings.

Paintings that had been on long-term loan to the Bemidji State University in Minnesota, were recently gifted to the institution,
establishing a new Permanent Art Collection to augment the university’s renowned Harlow ceramic and extensive Kleven Print Collections.
The works on display at the A.C. Clark Library include a series of large paintings done while Paquette was on a three-year fellowship-residency at the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami Beach in the early 1990s.

LINK – Listen to a short public radio interview recorded when the paintings were given and the collection was inaugurated.
Shown at left is one of the smaller paintings.

A Painting’s Progress, a short video on YouTube, shows
some of the process of developing a recent large oil painting.
LINK to YouTube video

The U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program
has produced a video about Paquette and his forty paintings
selected for diplomatic installations on five continents.
LINK to YouTube video

Phantom Canyon III, one of the Paquette paintings in the collection of Cunard Line’s
elegant transatlantic steamship Queen Mary 2, shares the screen several times with Meryl Streep
in Steven Soderbergh’s recent film “Let Them All Talk“.
The painting was prominently shown for long segments of seven scenes.
LINK to Jimmy Fallon / Lucas Hedges interview and clip showing Phantom Canyon III.
A larger Paquette painting in the ship’s collection, Broken-Limbed Tree, is in the adjoining Windsor Suite.