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Charles Comfort
Canadian, 1900 - 1994
Charles Fraser Comfort (1900-1994, b. Edinburgh, Scotland – d. Ottawa)
Born in Scotland, Charles Fraser Comfort was a painter, sculptor, teacher, writer, and muralist. After moving to Winnipeg with his family in 1912, Comfort began working at the age of 14 as a commercial artist while attending evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art and later travelling to the Art Students League of New York. A transfer to a commercial art studio in Toronto led to Comfort joining the Arts and Letters Club, where he met and took classes with members of the Group of Seven, whose later exhibitions would inspire Comfort to work on landscape paintings throughout his lifetime.
Comfort spent the 1930s working as a commercial illustrator, a muralist for a number of Toronto buildings, an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a painting instructor at the University of Toronto. He was one of the organizers for the 1941 Kingston Conference and also helped initiate Canada’s World War II War Art program, through which he would serve as an official war artist working with the Canadian forces in Italy. Comfort returned to assist in forming the Federation of Canadian Artists; he provided information for the 1951 Massey Report, which helped to establish the Canada Council.
Comfort served on the Board of Directors at the Art Gallery of Toronto and was director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1959 to 1965. He was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, the Canadian Group of Painters, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Mount Allison University granted him an honorary doctorate in 1958 and he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972. His work is collected and shown across Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Comfort
https://www.canadianartgroup.com/historical-artists/charles-comfort/
https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artists/comfort1eng.html
https://mayberryfineart.com/artist/charles-comfort/
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2001/05/charles-comfort/
Born in Scotland, Charles Fraser Comfort was a painter, sculptor, teacher, writer, and muralist. After moving to Winnipeg with his family in 1912, Comfort began working at the age of 14 as a commercial artist while attending evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art and later travelling to the Art Students League of New York. A transfer to a commercial art studio in Toronto led to Comfort joining the Arts and Letters Club, where he met and took classes with members of the Group of Seven, whose later exhibitions would inspire Comfort to work on landscape paintings throughout his lifetime.
Comfort spent the 1930s working as a commercial illustrator, a muralist for a number of Toronto buildings, an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a painting instructor at the University of Toronto. He was one of the organizers for the 1941 Kingston Conference and also helped initiate Canada’s World War II War Art program, through which he would serve as an official war artist working with the Canadian forces in Italy. Comfort returned to assist in forming the Federation of Canadian Artists; he provided information for the 1951 Massey Report, which helped to establish the Canada Council.
Comfort served on the Board of Directors at the Art Gallery of Toronto and was director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1959 to 1965. He was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, the Canadian Group of Painters, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Mount Allison University granted him an honorary doctorate in 1958 and he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972. His work is collected and shown across Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Comfort
https://www.canadianartgroup.com/historical-artists/charles-comfort/
https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artists/comfort1eng.html
https://mayberryfineart.com/artist/charles-comfort/
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2001/05/charles-comfort/