Oscar Cahén

Oscar Cahén
Life & Work by Jaleen Grove
45. Jeffrey Spalding, “Chronological List of Exhibitions,” unpublished manuscript, The Cahén
Archives. n.d.
46. “Pictures Are My Business” (advertisement), Globe and Mail, October 28, 1953, 7.
47. McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paint Brush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951, 18–23.
48. Beatrice Fischer, interview by Jaleen Grove, July 12, 2013; August 12, 2014.
49. The statement and the images were made in connection with McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a
Paint Brush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951 (photographs by Page Toles), The Cahén Foundation.
Key Works: Untitled (Piano Player)
1. Gerry Waldston, interview with Jaleen Grove, August 2013.
2. “Commercial Art Shown in Gallery,” Montreal Standard, November 6, 1943; “Three Painters at Art
Gallery,” Montreal Star, November 9, 1943. Co-exhibitors were Sam Borenstein and Emme
Frankenberg.
3. “Three One Man Shows,” Montreal Gazette, November 6, 1943.
4. “Commercial Art Shown in Gallery,” Montreal Standard, November 6, 1943.
5. “A Night Out in Montreal,” Weekend 6, no. 52 (December 28, 1956): 28–29.
Key Works: Hiroshima Cover Illustration
1. McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paintbrush,” The Standard, April 7, 1951, 18–23.
2. Oscar Cahén, cited in McKenzie Porter, “Volcano with a Paintbrush,” The Standard, April 7,
1951, 18–23.
Key Works: Illustration for “The Californian’s Tale”
1. Oscar Cahén, in Donald Buchanan, “An Illustrator Speaks His Mind,” Canadian Art 8, no. 1
(Autumn 1950): 3–4.
2. H.G. of Beaton, BC, “Vox Pop,” New Liberty, July 1948, 3. Collection of The Cahén Archives.
3. Toronto Art Directors Club, Annual (Toronto: Art Directors Club, 1949).
4. James Imlach, letter to Harold Town, October 16, 1948, Harold Town fonds, Library and Archives
Canada.
Key Works: The Adoration
1. Oscar Cahén quoted in a letter from W.R., “Memo to Our Readers,” New Liberty, 1948.
2. Stan Furnival, speech, Art Gallery of Toronto, March 25, 1959. Transcript in The Cahén Archives.
3. Oscar Cahén, quoted in David Mawr, “Modern Art a Reality,” Windsor Daily Star, August 29,
1953.
4. This reading was proposed by Cy Strom at the Second Oscar Cahén Colloquium, held at The
Cahén Archives, Toronto, April 26, 2014.
78