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By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 The 22-foot-long and 9-foot-4-inch-tall rare Norval Morrisseau painting, called Morrisseau Masterwork, now welcomes guests as soon as they walk through the front door of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. The painting has not been seen in 40 years, and those who got a chance to look at it before it was put into storage have only seen it lying on the floor, Meaghan Eley, gallery collection manager, told Newswatch on Friday. It’s on loan to the gallery for the rest of the year. \u201cIt was last seen in 1986. It was painted in 1985, shown briefly shortly after that, and then it’s been in storage since then,” ,\u201d she explained. “It’s one of the largest, if not the largest,… <\/p>\n

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By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 The 22-foot-long and 9-foot-4-inch-tall rare Norval Morrisseau painting, called Morrisseau Masterwork, now welcomes guests as soon as they walk through the front door of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. The painting has not been seen in 40 years, and those who got a chance to look at it before it was put into storage have only seen it lying on the floor, Meaghan Eley, gallery collection manager, told Newswatch on Friday. It’s on loan to the gallery for the rest of the year. \u201cIt was last seen in 1986. It was painted in 1985, shown briefly shortly after that, and then it’s been in storage since then,” ,\u201d she explained. “It’s one of the largest, if not the largest,... <\/p>\n

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