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

Olitksi only completed a small number of multiples

However Pachter is also fascinated by other Canadian icons - including the canoe

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library

mingling with ochre

Composed of anonymous statements

his contribution (and subversive humor) is undeniable

Signed and numbered in pencil lower right

if not 20th-century American abstraction

Tony Scherman (b

was a major departure from his previous work

Nevertheless they are remarkably well-executed and demonstrate the artist's versatility and charm

One of his signature approaches offers the viewer to look down into the "inside" of a shape