CHARLES PACHTER "STREETCAR RAINBOW" 1976Charles Pachters work frequently explores iconic images of Canada that are both patriotic and playful. Here, with an image of the classic TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars, this work epitomizes Pacthers version of Canadian Pop Art. Over the course of Pachter's long and fantastic career he has revisited the motif of the Toronto streetcar; each time finding an impressionable and charming representation of one of Toronto's icons. While Pachters

shortly after the tragedy of 9/11 Pachter created this special lithograph both honoring the fallen and celebrating Canada and the United States' friendship

From an edition of 50

We love the palette and humour of this work

to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the start of World War one

It has a spectacular texture and palette and is evocative of the uplifting

Framed with plexiglass

presented and judged in Western culture

By the 1960s

Screen print with gold foil on paper

As an artist he fearlessly experimented with different media and aesthetics - consider how different his "Toy Horse" is from his "Single Autographic Prints" or even his "Pop Star/Icon" works

if not 20th century American abstraction

Like the best of Pachter's work "Side by Side" has an optimism