Take Comfort
The Career of Charles Comfort / La Carriere de Charles Comfort

By Mary Jo Hughs ISBN: 9780889152373 format: Hardcover pages: n/a publisher: Winnipeg Art Gallery pub. date: 2007-02-01

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A generation younger than the Group of Seven and already mature when Canadian art again hit its stride in the 1960s, Charles Comfort (1900-1994) has suffered from a lack of critical appreciation. The four essays in this sumptuously illustrated hardcover edition provide a welcome revival of a significant figure in Canadian art history. While still a teenager in Winnipeg, Comfort was hired by one of the country's leading commercial art firms. Success led him to Toronto where he created murals for some of the city's most important public buildings. During the War he was a prominent war artist. Throughout, he produced a prodigious number of landscapes and portraits that remain iconic images of their times. With little formal education of his own, Comfort taught at the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and In 1960 he was appointed director of the National Gallery of Canada. An accompanying interactive CD Rom gives access to Comfort's guest book, a veritable who's who of Canadian art and culture between the wars. In English and French.

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