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Titans of the 20th Century
Preparing for the opening of the exhibition at Baycrest Foundation in Toronto on May 6th 2026. This exhibition features the works of three remarkable Jewish artists: Oscar Cahén, Sorel Etrog and Gershon Iskowitz - each of whom survived the Holocaust and went on to forge powerful artistic legacies. www.baycrest.org.


Donation of ceramics to the Gardiner Museum
New to the collection! The Gardiner recently acquired two rare ceramic works by Danish-born Canadian illustrator and abstract painter Oscar Cahén (1916-1956). After escaping war-torn Europe and settling in Canada in 1940, Cahén became one of the country’s most influential magazine illustrators and, later, a founding member of Painters Eleven, a pioneering group of abstract artists. He was also among a number of artists who experimented with ceramics in the mid-twentieth centu


A review of 'Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration' by Christopher Irmscher
Pleasure, parody and propaganda: rethinking the art of illustration in a new history of the genre From a ninth-century Chinese frontispiece to Marxist magazine covers, this rich tome explores the power of illustration and the ways in which we read such images Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kobayashi Kiyochika’s triptych of colour woodblock prints, Our Troops Set Up a Bivouac at Yingkou while Braving the Bitter Cold (1895). It is a scenefrom the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), dur


Oscar Cahén @ Heffel Auction | May 29th, 2019
https://www.heffel.com/auction/Details_E.aspx?LotNo=008&SaleID=288 Lot # 008 Oscar Cahén CGP CSGA CSPWC OSA P11 1915 - 1956 Canadian...


A Delightful Alcuin Awards Evening in Toronto | Alcuin Society Blog
The Alcuin Society published it's blog post about the Alcuin Awards evening at the Arts Letters Club of Toronto on Monday, October 22nd...


Robert Fulford: National Post October 15, 2018
Perhaps the biggest surprise in Oscar Cahén's life was when Britain arrested him as an 'enemy alien,' imprisoned him, then shipped him to...


Oscar Cahén wins Alcuin Design Award
The Cahén Archives are thrilled to announce that Frances Hunter, designer of Oscar Cahén, won third prize in the prestigious Alcuin...


ACI | DOUBLE VISION: THE TWIN TALENTS OF OSCAR CAHÉN
https://www.aci-iac.ca/online-exhibitions/double-vision-the-twin-talents-of-oscar-cahn After escaping Nazi Europe, Oscar Cahén...


BOOK REVIEW: "Oscar Cahén" marks an important step for the appreciation of Canadian art
ROBERT ENRIGHT SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED MAY 11, 2018 In a poem called Can Lit published in 1962, Earle Birney lamented...


150 Years | 150 Works: Canadian Art as Historical Act
https://150ans150oeuvres.uqam.ca/fr/oeuvre/ http://galerie.uqam.ca/en/exhibitions/virtual.html On May 2, Galerie de l’UQAM launched its...


National Gallery of Canada Magazine
Stephen Dale Searching for a way to celebrate visual arts traditions during Canada’s sesquicentennial year, Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art...


Oscar Cahén Curator's Talk with Jeffrey Spalding
Oct 5, 2017 at 7pm, Beaverbrook Art Gallery Join curator Jeffrey Spalding at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at...


Oscar Cahén at Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Sept 23, 2017 - Jan 21, 2018 http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/en/visit/exhibitions/oscar-cahen/ Oscar Cahén (1916 – 1956) was one of the...
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