Boat and Marker (1964), Snowplow (1967), and Sunrise (1970) — three works from a foundational decade, all reproduced in Helen J. Dow's 1972 monograph.

Among the rarer paintings from an artist best known as one of Canada's foremost printmakers. Blackwood reserved the Renaissance medium of oil tempera for a discrete body of cod fishery works made in the wake of the 1992 moratorium. Painted five years after the closure, Dipnet is a memorial portrait of an implement of a vanished trade. This work was first exhibited in the artist's 1998 solo exhibition at Heffel Gallery Limited, Vancouver.