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- ↑ "Art and grieving: Painter Barbara Pratt honours mother Mary Pratt's life in new exhibit". CBC News. 20 September 2020.
- ↑ Smellie, Sarah (18 September 2020). "With Cake, N.L. artist Barbara Pratt celebrates her late mother Mary Pratt". Winnipeg Free Press.
- ↑ "Barbara Pratt". Galerie de Bellefeuille.
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