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Onoko (Lower Falls) was selected for installation at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada,
during David L. Cohen’s tenure as Ambassador (2022-2025).

See here some of the other 40 Paquette paintings which the U.S. State Department has displayed
in exhibitions at 21 diplomatic missions around the world.

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