Sigvaldason Fine Art Inc.
Gimli, Manitoba
Sigvaldason Fine Art specializes in Historical and Contemporary Canadian Artwork. Artists include the Group of 7, Ivan Eyre, Leo Mol, Maud Lewis, etc.
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Artist: Charles Comfort
Charles Fraser Comfort, OC RCA LL. D. (July 22, 1900 – July 5, 1994) was a Scotland-born Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. 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. 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 Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald and Walter J. Phillips. n 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. He also helped to initiate Canada's World War II War Art program, serving as an Official Second World War artist. Comfort later became the Director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1959 until 1965.