In the preface to one of his interviews with the artist, Robert Enright noticed that Klunder "makes a painting the way life is lived: everything goes in and everything must be considered. He is, in this regard, one of the most considerate painters I've ever talked to; in his painted world, nothing escapes attention. Nor do other painters. Klunder is an especially well-read looker: he has thought so thoroughly about the imposing tradition of painting within which he operates that it has become part of his own painterly DNA. Significantly, he has a painting by that name in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. It is an inventory of a number of moments in the history of modern painting...