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When that rhythm calls me to a universe other than this one; I ask each of you, who wish to remember me, to look at my paintings or my dioramas. As long as my work is appreciated by the generations that follow, my work will have tapped into that rhythm and will be timeless; even though I have now
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Manitoba. "
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Clarence Tillenius. Winnipeg:Manitoba Dept. of Mines and Natural Resources, Conservation Extension Branch, 1969. Reprinted 1970, 1971 and 1980.
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956:"Artist Clarence Tillenius dies at 98"
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