Streetcar Pinwheel 1/4

About Streetcar Pinwheel 1/4

This pop art painting is by Charles Pachter.

Considered to be one of Canada’s most important artists, Charles Pachter creates uniquely playful and iconic pop art. This acrylic is of five streetcars, a classic Toronto image depicted in a fun pinwheel format. The color palette is characteristically bold—bright red, white, and yellow for the streetcars set against a black circle.

“I came home and then what did I look at in my own hometown?-- the Toronto Street Car. That was in the seventies. 1:24 And a good art critic would compare it with Warhol’s soup cans but the old red rocket of Toronto. So, I did a whole series on the streetcars, and it was a very successful show at the Isaacs Gallery in 1972, in Toronto.” Charles Pachter

“Pachter’s art is woven into the very fabric of his country’s iconography and public consciousness.” Tom Smart, writer, art museum curator

Charles Pachter studied at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne in Paris, and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA. Among his many accolades, he is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe, Japan, the UK, India, and Bangladesh. His work is held in both private and public collections around the world including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McMichael Gallery.