Charles Pachter Art
Canadian, b. 1942
One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. His work is pursued by significant private and public collections.
Born in Toronto, Pachter studied art history at the University of Toronto, French literature at the Sorbonne and painting and graphics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery. Pachter is represented in public and private collections throughout Canada, and internationally. He has held solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and India.
Pachter worked at Expo 67 in Montreal supervising the installation of 60 contemporary sculptures from around the world. He taught printmaking at the University of Calgary in 1969–70. He spearheaded Toronto’s Queen Street West revival in the 1970s and ‘80s by restoring 20 old buildings into facilities for arts usage.
Pachter is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, a member of the Order of Ontario and holds honorary doctorates from Brock University, OCAD University and the University of Toronto, where he is a Senior Fellow at Massey College. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals. While often referred to as “Canada's Warhol,” he has his own unique voice.
Pachter’s paintings are in the Portrait Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Canada House in London, the Parliament Buildings, the Prime Minister’s residence, the Governor General's home and the Embassy of France in Ottawa.
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(Biography provided by OENO Gallery)
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Period: 20th Century
Artist: Charles Pachter
Pink Preparatory Flag
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the Spring of 1981, Charles Pachter began working on his most iconic and celebrated series: the Painter Flag.
Decades before Photoshop, Pachter went around Toronto taking photos ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Oil
Mooseamour 26
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Enamel
Molly Johnson
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Screen
Mooseplunge, 1976 51/100 - figurative, playful, pop-art, serigraph limited print
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The iconic Canadian image of a moose— ‘the Monarch of the North’ is captured in this early serigraph by Charles Pachter. The black outline of a moose is viewed plunging off a cliff i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Screen
Face
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation...
Category
1960s Expressionist Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Screen
Streetcar Situation Green A/P 1/1 -figurative, playful, pop-art, limited edition
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This artist’s proof (1/1) is a playful homage to the beloved image of a Toronto streetcar. Pop Artist Charlie Pachter was inspired to create a series of prints on streetcars for one of his first exhibitions in the seventies. This serigraph features the detailed outline of a streetcar angled across three panels—the back and front of a streetcar painted green appears on either side—top and bottom. The backdrop is neutral, bordered in gold.
Pachter is a much-admired Canadian artistic polymath, his colourful pop artwork merging playful even irreverent elements with deeply iconic imagery.
“….a good art critic would compare it with Warhol’s soup cans...
Category
1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Screen
Cloud cars, 5/20 - figurative, playful, pop-art, lithograph, limited print
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This charmingly whimsical lithograph of a classic Toronto image—the streetcar was one of a series Charles Pachter first created in the seventies. Two electric streetcars moving away from the viewer fill the frame—in yellow and pink— hydro lines above them appear to be suspended above a large cloud. Pachter is a much-admired Canadian artistic polymath, his colourful pop artwork merging playful even irreverent elements with deeply iconic imagery. Number 5 0f 20.
“…and a good art critic would compare it with Warhol’s soup cans...
Category
1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Streetcar Circus 5/20 - figurative, playful, pop-art, editioned lithograph
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
For pop artist Charles Pachter, the Toronto streetcar symbolizes the urban landscape he calls home. The iconic image of the streetcar whose tracks have criss-crossed Canada’s largest city for decades was once known as ‘the red rocket’ because of its deep red paint colour. In this lithograph the bright colours of a large image of the back of the streetcar in hot pink and blue with three more smaller images of streetcars in classic red, yellow and one in green pop against a black backdrop. Pachter is a much-admired Canadian artistic polymath, his colourful pop artwork merging playful even irreverent elements with deeply iconic imagery.
“….a good art critic would compare it with Warhol’s soup cans...
Category
1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ceremonial
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museum...
Category
1970s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Davenport and Bay
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museum...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Giclée
Joy Ride
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museu...
Category
1980s Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Giclée
Painted Flag: Preparatory #2B
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of Canada’s most collected and cherished artists. His uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation’s museums from coast to coast.
In the spring of 1981, Pachter began working on his most iconic and celebrated series, the Painted Flag. Seven years before Photoshop, he traveled around Toronto photographing Canadian flags...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen With Horse
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images retain independently earned their place in the nation's muse...
Category
1970s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sandbar Trilogy - gay beach, figurative acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sandbar Trilogy is a brilliantly colorful pop art painting, an ode to the popular gay beach scene in Miami, Florida. Three panels of male figures are seen lounging, sitting and stan...
Category
1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Neville
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museums and the Canadian art canon.
The barn, along with Queen Elizabeth and the Moose, forms a triad of icons that Charles Pachter has repeatedly visited over the course of his career.
Playful and a touch irreverent, Pachter's charming imagery presents a new narrative on Canadiana. The artist’s vast body of work includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Pachter’s works are widely sought-after and are an ideal selection for starting or continuing a collection of 20th-century Canadian art.
Pachter's confident colors, sharp lines, and graphic qualities are instantly recognizable and continue to be a mainstay throughout his oeuvre.
Here with an image of the classic TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars, this work epitomizes Pacther’s version of Canadian Pop Art...
Category
1970s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Toronto Flag
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museums and the Canadian art canon.
The barn, along with Queen Elizabeth and the Moose, forms a triad of icons that Charles Pachter has repeatedly visited over the course of his career.
Playful and a touch irreverent, Pachter's charming imagery presents a new narrative on Canadiana. The artist’s vast body of work includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Pachter’s works are widely sought-after and are an ideal selection for starting or continuing a collection of 20th-century Canadian art.
Pachter's confident colors, sharp lines, and graphic qualities are instantly recognizable and continue to be a mainstay throughout his oeuvre.
Here with an image of the classic TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars, this work epitomizes Pacther’s version of Canadian Pop Art...
Category
1970s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Face Off
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the early 1980s, Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the TTC to do a Hockey-themed mural at the College Street subway station. It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Rooster
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museum...
Category
1960s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bather
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have earned their place in the nation's museums from coast t...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hockey Knights in Canada, Goalie
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the early 1980's Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the TTC to do a Hockey-themed mural at the College Street subway station. It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Hockey Knights in Canada, C.
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the early 1980's Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the TTC to do a Hockey-themed mural at the College Street subway station. It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Hockey Knights
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the early 1980's Charles Pachter approached the chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to do a Hockey-themed mural at the College Street subway station. It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
It Was Fascination I Know 5/10 - figurative, playful, pop-art, serigraph print
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In brilliant, bright colours Charles Pachter pays homage to his long-time friend, the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. This fun Andy Warhol-like portra...
Category
1960s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Statuesque
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museum...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pink Flag - bright, pop-art, Canadiana, figurative, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A Canadian flag flies from the top of a pole that swoops into the center of a taffy pink sky in this unique painting by artistic polymath Charles Pachter.
In this painting, the arti...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Charles Pachter "Oro Barn" Painting, 1999
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Born in Toronto (1942), Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. In both style and content, Pachter’s uplifting images share characteristics with ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Charles Pachter "Oro Barn" Painting, 1998
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter’s unique version of Pop Art has confirmed his position in the canon of 20th-century Canadian art.
In the artist's most cherished work take archetypes of Canadiana --...
Category
1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Noblesse Oblige 1/1 (Nobility Obliges) - pop-art, Canadiana, lithograph print
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A portrait of a Canadian Mountie and his horse are the subject of this unique 1970 print (edition 1 of 1) by Charles Pachter. The French titling of the work Noblesse Oblige...
Category
1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Screen, Lithograph
Charles Pachter "Plunge", 1970
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museum...
Category
1970s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Lithograph
Charles Pachter "Mini Blue Barn"
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in museums across the country.
Pachter’s artworks, and unique version of Pop Art, have confirmed his position in the canon of 20th century Canadian art. Pachter’s most cherished images take archetypes of Canadiana -- the barn, Queen Elizabeth, and the moose, -- and depict them with a distinct style, a fresh palette (and often through a humorous lens).
“Mini Blue Barn...
Category
1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Charles Pachter "Oro Barns"
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the natio...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Acrylic
Charles Pachter "Good Night to the Rooster"
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists.
His iconic, uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in museums across the ...
Category
1960s Abstract Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Giclée
Night: The Canvas House - pop-art, minimalist, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Pachter has often used the tent as a symbol of the country, of military history, and the journey implied by the use of the tent, and of course, the primary symbolism of the pyramid. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Queen on Moose
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Charles Pachter (b. 1942) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. His iconic, uplifting, and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation...
Category
1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Acrylic
Horizontal Flag - pop-art, Canadiana, iconic, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canada’s national flag fills the frame of this magnificent painting by contemporary artist Charles Pachter. As a strong patriot, Pachter has chosen to celebrate the iconic image of ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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