Oscar Cahén

Oscar Cahén
Life & Work by Jaleen Grove
Key Works: Maclean’s cover illustration
1. Rose MacDonald, “Is Art Revolution Here or Is It Doodling Phase?” Toronto Telegram, March 9,
1951, 3.
2. Rose MacDonald, “Is Art Revolution Here or Is It Doodling Phase?” Toronto Telegram, March 9,
1951, 3.
Key Works: Growing Form
1. Minutes of the Hart House Art Committee Meeting #213, January 5, 1954; #214, February 2,
1954.
2. Hugh Thomson, “Hart House Gallery Shows Abstract Art,” Toronto Daily Star, October 28,
1954, 4.
3. Harold Town, quoted in Karen Finlay, “Identifying with Nature: Graham Sutherland and Canadian
Art, 1939–1955,” Canadian Art Review 21, nos. 1–2 (1994): 43–59; David Burnett, Oscar Cahén
(Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983), 16.
Key Works: Small Combo
1. Rose McDonald, “At the Galleries,” Toronto Telegram, February 14, 1954. Clipping in The Cahén
Archives.
2. Charles Benbow, “Ringling Offers Feast for Eyes,” St. Petersburg Times, October 6, 1968, G1.
Clipping in The Cahén Archives.
3. Tom Hodgson, interview by Joan Murray, January 27, 1979. Joan Murray fonds, Library and
Archives Canada.
4. Ninth sale of the Women’s Committee, Art Gallery of Toronto, October 21-31, 1955.
Key Works: Warrior
1. The 2nd Winnipeg Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 4–25, 1956.
Key Works: Multi part Mural for Imperial Oil Executive Office Building
1. Lela Wilson, “The Imperial Oil Mural,” http://staging.yorkwilsonfoundation.org/
biography/YW_LifeandWork_Chapter11.pdf
2. Contract between Imperial Oil Ltd. and Oscar Cahén, May 5, 1955. Collection of the Glenbow
Museum. Salary of a male working in manufacturing is based on Statistics Canada data.
3. Robert Fulford, “The Case of the Missing Art Books,” Mayfair, September 1957, 63.
4. Harold Town, “Note to Critics: Light Bulbs Have No Lesson for the Sun,” Globe and Mail,
November 25, 1972, 31.
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