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Works on Paper by Bill Joseph. Bill Joseph, who died in 2003, is best remembered as a sculptor, and several of his pieces are prominently sited downtown. However, Joseph was also adept at making more intimately scaled drawings, as revealed by this display, which includes more than a score of drawings surveying the artist's career from the 1940s to the 1980s. Joseph, born in 1926, began his career in the 1940s as a traditional realist, and several beautiful portraits dating from this time are in the show. But in the late '50s and early '60s, he embraced figural abstraction and stuck with it for most of the rest of his career. This elegant exhibit was organized by Robert St. John, who chose pieces from the artist's estate. Joseph only rarely dated drawings, and once he embraced figural abstraction, his style remained consistent over many decades. This explains why the selections have not been hung chronologically. But it's a shame that neither St. John nor the Joseph family was willing to take a stab at laying them out in order so that viewers could follow his development as an artist. Through December 7 at the O'Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, 3333 Regis Boulevard, 303-964-3634. Reviewed November 8.