Charles Comfort
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| Born | 22 July 1900 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | July 5, 1994 (aged 93) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Tadoussac, 1935, Captain Vancouver, 1937, BC Pageant 1951 |
| Awards | Order of Canada, 1972 |
Charles Fraser Comfort, OC (July 22, 1900 – July 5, 1994) was a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator.
Born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Comfort moved to Winnipeg in 1912 with his family. His father found work with the treasury department for the city of Winnipeg. Comfort as the eldest child had to work from a young age to help support his family. In 1914, he began work as a commercial artist at the newly established Brigdens Limited commercial art branch office in Winnipeg, and by 1916 Comfort started attending evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art.
Comfort saved money to attend the Art Students League of New York under Robert Henri and Euphrasius Tucker. Still working part-time for Brigdens commercial studio, he was temporarily transferred to Toronto in 1919. While in Toronto, Comfort joined the Arts and Letters Club, taking life-study classes and meeting members of the Group of Seven. Comfort visited the Group’s inaugural 1920 exhibition, which inspired Comfort to work on landscape paintings, a theme he continued throughout his lifetime.
Comfort returned to Winnipeg in 1922 for his first exhibition of watercolours at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. During this time, he met LeMoine Fitzgerald and Walter J. Phillips. It was not until 1925 that Comfort painted his first oil painting, when he returned to Toronto where he befriended Will Ogilvie, who may have influenced this switch to oil. In 1928 he painted a striking watercolour portrait of violinist Alexander Chuhaldin with his Amati violin, with a copy of the Natalia Goncharova set design for Le Coq d'Or in the background (painting now in the Art Gallery of Hamilton).
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