CHARLES PACHTER "HOCKEY KNIGHTS IN CANADA, GOALIE", 1984In 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's original home the Maple Leaf Gardens. Although the artist encountered a lot of interference with his pending designs due to copyright of the team's logos and from other TTC bigwigs (who insisted that the player be depicted wearing

and the Albright-Knox Gallery

Acrylic and watercolor on paper

Very good condition

(Note: sold framed for $3

Acrylic bronze mirror on archival black gatorboard backing

this work represents an intersection between Toronto history

Motherwell is also revered as a printmaker

While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse and ever-changing

Jade Rude is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist educated in Norway and Canada

a unique paradox that transforms her sentimental subject matter into melancholic dreamscapes

a slim neck and precise features

Lochhead's own aesthetic was both parallel to and influenced by the color-field painters who came to international prominence in the late 1960's