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The juror, Montréal artist Yves Gaucher, was underwhelmed by the 400 entries he was asked to consider, selecting but ten works.30 A scandal ensued. Artists protested the small selection, the commitment to avant-gardism that the selection represented, and some rule bending.31

Gaucher was scheduled to take part in a discussion with his Vancouver host, Roy Kiyooka, but this did not take place. Gaucher's judgement--seemingly so at odds with the enthusiasm radiated by the 1966 juror, Arnold Rockman, when he chose Painting '66, the 1966 edition of the BC Annual--was perhaps a sign that sixties painting in Vancouver was not on such firm ground as the scene with no scene had hoped.

Indeed, a younger generation was already experimenting . . .