Charles Comfort was a commercial artist, landscape and portrait painter, printmaker, muralist, teacher and arts administrator. His watercolour and oil paintings include a number of very powerful, symbolic portraits, as well as ordered landscapes. Comfort held a strong belief in the importance of art in society; he played a significant role in Canada's War Art program and in the establishment of the Canada Council for the Arts. (for more...) He discovered Lake Clear in the 1950s when he and A.Y. Jackson began visiting Robert Starrs.  Robert Starr's woods, 1977 |