sketch drawing
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19940015-069
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
Europe - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Schaefer, Flight Lieutenant Carl Fellman
- Date Made --
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Medium pencil
- Materials Paper
- Service Component Royal Canadian Air ForceRoyal Air Force
- Measurements Height 19.0 cm, Width 25.0 cm
- Caption Carl Schaefer (1903 - 1995)
- Additional Information As an official war artist with the RCAF, Schaefer served with Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands in the United Kingdom and Iceland. The 221 paintings, sketchbooks, and war diaries retained in the art collection of the Canadian War Museum bear testament to war years richly lived and experienced. Carl Schaefer was born in Hanover, Ontario, and attended the Ontario College of Art. The Group of Seven artists J.E.H. MacDonald and Arthur Lismer were among his teachers. In essence a landscapist, he found the countryside around his birthplace particularly inspiring, especially during the lean years of the 1930s. His fortunes as an artist turned when in 1940 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to paint full-time in New England. Three years later he was commissioned into the RCAF. After the war he taught for many years at the Ontario College of Art before retiring.