Oscar Cahén

Oscar Cahén
Life & Work by Jaleen Grove
18. Czech National Archives, Police Headquarters Prague II, General Registry file: Rotter, Vilém.
19. Czech National Archives, Police Headquarters Prague II, General Registry file: Cahén, Oskar.
20. Karel Paleček, interrogation record (November 27–28, 1949), Security Services Archives, files of
Second Department of Military Intelligence, Prague.
21. Eric Koch, Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder (Toronto: Methuen, 1980).
22. Oscar Cahén, “Song for a Fading Difference” (manuscript; translation by Gerta Moray), The
Cahén Archives.
23. Eric Koch, Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder (Toronto: Methuen, 1980), 136–44.
24. Eric Koch, Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder (Toronto: Methuen, 1980), 157.
25. Beatrice Fischer, interview by Jaleen Grove, July 12, 2013; August 12, 2014.
26. Ben Turner, letter to Samuel Goldner, May 2, 1942, archives of the United Jewish Relief
Agencies, collection Series BC.
27. The Standard, unidentified news clipping, c. June 1942.
28. Stan Furnival, “Notes on Oscar Cahén,” Northward Journal: A Quarterly of the Northern Arts,
no. 18/19 (November 1980): n.p.
29. Colin Gravenor, letter to C.F. Martin, President, Art Association of Montreal, June 4, 1943, The
Cahén Archives.
30. Rachel Boisclair, “Les impacts du contexte canadien de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale sur le
fonctionnement et les orientations esthétiques de l’Art Association of Montreal” (MA thesis,
Université du Québec à Montréal, forthcoming).
31. “Three Painters at Art Gallery,” Montreal Star, November 9, 1943.
32. Gerry Waldston, interview by Jaleen Grove, September 26, 2013.
33. Documentation of Fritz Max Cahén’s illness and efforts to bring him to Canada are in letters in
the Archives of the Ontario Jewish Association, and Archives of the United Jewish Relief Agencies,
collection Series BC.
34. J.E. Duggan, Department of the Secretary of State, Ottawa, letter to Martha Levinsky, January 3,
1941, The Cahén Archives.
35. Everett Roseborough, letter to Michael Cahén, May 31, 2004, The Cahén Archives; “Former City
Artist Happy on Secluded Farm,” Globe and Mail, October 25, 1947, 15.
36. McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paint Brush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951, 18–23.
37. Documentation of Fritz Max Cahén’s illness and efforts to bring him to Canada are in letters in
the Archives of the Ontario Jewish Association, and Archives of the United Jewish Relief Agencies,
collection Series BC.
38. McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paint Brush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951, 18–23.
39. McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paint Brush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951, 18–23.
40. The New York Art Directors Club, 1951–1952 (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1952), 287.
41. Cahén in Donald Buchanan, “An Illustrator Speaks His Mind,” Canadian Art 8, no. 1
(Autumn 1950): 2–8.
42. Jim Imlach, letter to Harold Town, August 23, 1948, Harold Town fonds, Library and Archives
Canada. Imlach reiterated this in another letter, October 16, 1948.
43. Harold Town, untitled manuscript in three drafts, Harold Town fonds, Library and Archives
Canada.
44. Harold Town, untitled manuscript in three drafts, Harold Town fonds, Library and Archives
Canada.
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