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Charles Pachter OC OOnt (born December 30, 1942) is a Canadian contemporary artist. He is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne, art history at the University of Toronto, and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
“THE ARTIST WHO CREATED CANADA’S MODERN MYTHOLOGY: Renowned for his iconic renderings of the Canadian flag, the Queen astride a moose and cultural icons from Margaret Atwood to Pierre Trudeau, painter and printmaker Charles Pachter has himself become an icon of this country’s art scene.
One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His iconic pop images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag celebrate Canada’s cultural heritage with wit and whimsy.
EDUCATION AND HONOURS. Diplômé de l’ESPPPFE, Sorbonne, Paris, 1963. Honours BA, Fine Art , University of Toronto, 1964. MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, 1966. Honorary Doctorate, Brock University, St. Catharines, 1996. Member, Order of Canada 1999. Officer, Order of Canada, 2012. Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, France, 2001.
(b.1942, Toronto, ON) Charles Pachter is a much-admired Canadian artistic polymath, his colourful work merging playful even irreverent elements with deeply iconic imagery. A painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer and author, Pachter is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne-Paris.
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Jul 18, 2017 · Margaret Atwood’s Appreciation , originally published as the foreword to Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov’s monograph Charles Pachter (McClelland & Steward, 1992), paints intimate vignettes of their flourishing relationship and how it felt to “come of age as an artist in Canada of the ’50s and ’60s” when serigraphs of Group of Seven landscapes hung in ev...
