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Charles Comfort was born on 22 July, 1900 in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., is a Scotland-born Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. Discover Charles Comfort's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 July, 1900
Birthday 22 July
Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
Date of death 5 July, 1994
Died Place Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Edinburgh

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Charles Fraser Comfort, LL.

1900

D. (July 22, 1900 – July 5, 1994) was a Scotland-born Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator.

1912

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.

1914

In 1914, he began work as a commercial artist at the newly established Brigdens commercial art branch office in Winnipeg established by Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden, 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.

1919

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.

1920

Comfort visited the Group's inaugural 1920 exhibition, which inspired Comfort to work on landscape paintings, a theme he continued throughout his lifetime.

1922

Comfort returned to Winnipeg in 1922 for his first exhibition of watercolours at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

During this time, he met Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald and Walter J. Phillips.

1925

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 his switch to oil.

1928

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).

1930

In the 1930s, Comfort worked in commercial illustrator as well as a teacher at the Ontario College of Art and Design from 1935 to 1938.

1932

Comfort was commissioned to design a mural for Toronto's North American Life Building in 1932, the first in many he completed.

The following year he met the American Precisionist Charles Sheeler.

1935

One of the artist's most celebrated works, Tadoussac of 1935, suggests the influence of Sheeler due to its clear crisp colours and shapes.

1936

In 1936, Comfort rented a studio next to a room occupied by A. Y. Jackson, in the Studio Building, a building made famous by the Group of Seven artists, and the following year he designed the exterior frieze and interior murals for the Toronto Stock Exchange.

1937

In 1937, he was commissioned by the International Nickel Company to produce a 2x6m centrepiece work entitled "The Romance of Nickel" for the Paris Exhibition; it now hangs in the National Gallery of Canada.

1941

Comfort was one of the organizers of the 1941 Kingston Conference, a meeting of Canadian artists to discuss the role of art in society as well as other issues facing the arts at the time.

He also helped to initiate Canada's World War II War Art program, serving as an Official Second World War artist.

1943

He joined the Canadian Army (Active) in February 1943.

During this time he painted widely in the south of England

before joining the 1 Canadian Infantry Division in Italy, travelling by sea in November 1943 with the field historian Samuel Hughes.

1944

to the United Kingdom in August 1944.

He visited North-West Europe for

1945

some weeks in 1945.

1946

He served as a war artist from that date until July 1946, holding the rank

of major.

There he painted principally the Ortona and Liri Valley battles before returning

1951

Comfort was a founding member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and contributed to the 1951 Massey Report, which led to the founding of the Canada Council, an organization that Comfort helped establish.

1954

In 1954 he was one of eighteen Canadian artists commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint a mural for the interior of one of the new Park cars entering service on the new Canadian transcontinental train.

Each of the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Comfort's was Banff National Park.

He also created murals for the Canadian National Railway Montreal Central Station.

1956

In 1956, he had published Artist at War, a book he wrote about his experiences.

He returned to academic life after the war teaching mural painting

at the Ontario College of Art, and later became Professor of Art and

1960

Archeology, University of Toronto until 1960.

He taught primarily painting techniques, including mural-painting, and other studio courses later in his career at the university.