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Jaleen Grove would like to thank Sara Angel for this opportunity and the staff of ACI for their meticulous work, and to acknowledge the unpublished research of Jeffrey Spalding, Tom Smart, Gerta Moray, Jessica Poon, Cy Strom, Rachel Boisclair, and Paula Draper. She also thanks Michael Cahén, Jim Harrison, and the Visual Literacy Foundation of Canada for use of The Cahén Archives, Alan Flint for input on printmaking, Marek Cerveny for research in Prague, and David Silcox for access to the Harold Town fonds; and she extends gratitude to all interviewees, especially Gerry Waldston, Beatrice Fischer, William Pachner, Jean Ainsworth, and Colin Gravenor, Jr.
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Biography: Oscar Cahén painting outdoors in King Township, Ontario, c. 1949. (See below for details.)
Key Works: Oscar Cahén, The Adoration, 1949. (See below for details.)
Significance & Critical Issues: Oscar Cahén, Traumoeba, 1956. (See below for details.)
Style & Technique: Oscar Cahén, Illustration for the “The Pirate,” 1948. (See below for details.)
Sources & Resources: Oscar Cahén, Growing Form, 1953. (See below for details.)
Where to See: Installation view of Oscar Cahén Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1959. (See below for details).
Day Neon, 1953, by Harold Town. Collection of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Gift of the artist’s estate, 1994.
A group of internees behind the barbed wire fences at the Camp N internment camp in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on November 19, 1945. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, PA-114463.
The Hero, 1933, by George Grosz. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Installation view of Oscar Cahén Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1959. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
Oscar Cahén with a guitar, c. 1945. Photograph by Geraldine Carpenter. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
Oscar in his beloved Austin-Healey sports car. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
Photograph of Cahén taken for an article in the Autumn 1950 issue of Canadian Art magazine. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform at Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, c. 1940–42. Photograph by Marcell Seidler. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, PA-143492.
Photograph of lost painting, c. 1946. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Grove, Jaleen, author
Oscar Cahén : life & work / by Jaleen Grove.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Biography — Key works — Significance & critical issues — Style &
technique — Sources & resources — Where to see.
Electronic monograph.
ISBN 978-1-4871-0065-0 (pdf). —ISBN 978-1-4871-0063-6 (epub)
1. Cahén, Oscar, 1916-1956. 2. Cahén, Oscar, 1916-1956—Criticism and
interpretation. 3. Painters—Canada—Biography. 4. Illustrators—Canada
—Biography. I. Art Canada Institute, issuing body II. Title.
Jaleen Grove has served as the Scholar-in-Residence at the Cahén Archives in Toronto since 2013. She is a specialist in visual culture and in illustration research. Learn More
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