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Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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Artist: Charles Pachter
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 ...
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1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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 --...
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1990s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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...
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1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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...
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1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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...
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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...
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1970s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Queen With Horse
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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...
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1980s Contemporary Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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...
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1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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...
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1980s Pop Art Charles Pachter Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

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