Artist Charles Fraser Comfort
Title Algonquin Lake
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
1947 -53
Size 29.5 x 39.5 in. / 74.9 x 100.3 cm.
Estimate $600 - $800
Notes
signed and dated '47' in print lower right; printed title along bottom; unframed; paint loss; staining, scuffs and handling marks noted throughout
Reference
printed by Sampson-Matthews Limited; illustrated on page 133 in Art for War and Peace: How a Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself, by Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman, published by Read Leaf, 2015
Biographical Information
Charles Fraser Comfort ~ [1900-1994] Canadian CGP, CSPWC, OSA, RCA
author of Artists at War, by C.Comfort, Ryerson Press,1956; see Charles Fraser Comfort, Fifty Years, by P.Glover, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972; Take Comfort, the Career of Charles Comfort, by MJ Hughes, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2007; biographies and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.208 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.76; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.140; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.71, Westbridge Pub., 1999; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.79; biography in Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, by E.Benezit, Tome 2, pg. 596