Charles Goldhamer was an American-born Canadian artist.
12 Facts About Charles Goldhamer
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Charles Goldhamer is mostly known for his work as a Canadian Official War Artist during the 1940s.
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Charles Goldhamer produced art for Eaton's advertising pages and drew a regular cartoon for the Star Weekly.
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Charles Goldhamer continued his education at the Ontario College of Art, studying with Arthur Lismer.
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Charles Goldhamer died in Toronto of an apparent heart attack at the age of 81.
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Charles Goldhamer exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and was a member of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers and life member of The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
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Charles Goldhamer was president of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour from 1941 to 1943.
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Charles Goldhamer served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force as an official Canadian war artist from 1943 to 1946.
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Charles Goldhamer was appointed the supervisor of art programs for air force personnel, and was involved in an arts and crafts rehabilitation program in Newfoundland and Labrador and later on the West coast.
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Charles Goldhamer went overseas in the final stages of the war.
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Charles Goldhamer regarded these studies of airmen as "studies in character".
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Charles Goldhamer's works are held in the collections of the Canadian War Museum, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Hart House at the University of Toronto.