Goldhamer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and came to Canada with his family the following year, first settling in Owen Sound, Ontario and later Toronto.
Goldhamer produced art for Eaton's advertising pages and drew a regular cartoon for the Star Weekly.
[3] While in the armed services, he wrote and illustrated a booklet titled Drawing for pleasure in a series called How-To-Get-Started.
[8] In 1954, Paul Duval selected his watercolour of Fishing Boats, Atlantic Coast, for his book, Canadian Water Colour Painting.
[9] Duval wrote of Goldhamer that his early work was of habitants and scenes along the Atlantic coast but more recently he had developed a fresh vein of landscape fantasy.