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Charles Comfort

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Charles Fraser Comfort (1900 - 1994) was active/lived in Ontario, Manitoba / Canada.  Charles Comfort is known for Landscape and mural painting, illustration, printmaking, teaching.

Charles Fraser Comfort OC, LLD, RCA, CGP, CSGA, CSPWC, FRSA, MSA, OSA (1900 - 1994)  

"Be original, but not as original as can be." - Charles Fraser Comfort (1931). (1)

Charles Fraser Comfort was a Canadian painter, printmaker, illustrator, muralist, commercial artist, educator and a very prominent leader in the national art community.  He was Canada's Senior Official War Artist during World War II, President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*, and the Director of the National Gallery of Canada.  Hundreds of his works are in Canadian museums and his numerous awards and honors include one of Canada's highest, the Order of Canada*.

He was born in Cramond, Scotland, now part of Edinburgh.  His family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1912, where he lived until 1925 when he moved to Toronto, Ontario.  He died in Ottawa, Ontario where he had lived since becoming director of the National Gallery of Canada in 1960. (2)

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44 Book References for Charles Comfort
Year Author Title Pages Color
2017 Carney, Lora Senechal Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955 322 Yes
2006 Pearse, Harold (Editor) From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education in Canada 318 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Brandon, Laura Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist 241 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Gooch, Jane Lytton Artists of the Rockies: Inspiration of Lake O'Hara, Illustration 100 years of landscape painting by the Lake O'Hara area in the Canadian Rockies 152 Yes
2003 Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell 1953 94 Yes
2002 McKay, Marylin A National Soul: Canadian Mural Painting, 1860s-1930s 320 Yes
2001 Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction 622 No
1998 Stacey, Robert and Stan McMullin Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo 101 Yes
1995 Hill, Charles C The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation
(Exhibition catalog)		 374 Yes
1991 Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 1557 Yes
1989 Boyanoskji, Christine Permeable Border: Art of Canada and the United States 1920-1940 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto) 70 No
1988 Donegan, Rosemary Industrial Images (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario)
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1988 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal) 417 No
1988 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition) 418 Yes
1986 Thom, Ian Murals from a Great Canadian Train 191 Yes
1984 Baker, Marilyn The Winnipeg School of Art: The Early Years 135 Yes
1984 Murray, Joan Daffodils in Winter: The Life and Letters of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1904-1949 350 No
1982 Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School 160 No
1981 Murray, Joan Canadian Artists of the Second World War (Robert McLaughlin Gallery) 124 No
1981 Oko, Andrew J. and Rosemary Donegan The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect (Art Gallery of Hamiltonm Ontario) 96 No
1977 Robertson, Heather A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum) 240 Yes
1976 Gray, Margaret Charles Comfort 75 Yes
1976 Williamson, Moncrieff Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum) 88 Yes
1975 Hill, Charles C Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue)
(Exhibition catalog)		 223 Yes
1974 Duval, Paul High Realism in Canada 175 Yes
1974 MacDonald, Colin, S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes) 3667 No
1973 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973 319 Yes
1972 Duval, Paul Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970 192 Yes
1970 Bradfield, Helen Pepall Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection 603 No
1970 Townsend, William Canadian Art Today 114 Yes
1967 Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art 254 Yes
1967 National Gallery of Canada Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1966 Harper, J Russell Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition) 443 No
1960 Hubbard, R.H. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III 463 No
1956 Comfort, Charles Fraser Artist At War 187 Yes
1948 National Gallery Of Canada Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada
(Exhibition catalog)		 271 No
1945 McCurry, H.O. and National Gallery of Canada Exhibition of Canadian War Art (Exhibition at National Gallery and Art Gallery of Toronto)
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 No
1936 Lismer, Arthur Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters' 12 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Middleton, Jesse Edgar; Illustration by C.F. Comfort, T.W. McLean, R.W. Murphy, S. Turner Toronto's 100 Years, 1834-1934: The Official Centennial Book 228 Yes
1930 Salaman, Malcolm C. The New Woodcut 176 Yes
1923 Healy, William Joseph Women of Red River (Women's Canadian Club) 261 No
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