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.

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

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

https://www.heffel.com/auction/Details_E.aspx?LotNo=008&SaleID=288 Lot # 008 Oscar Cahén CGP CSGA CSPWC OSA P11 1915 - 1956 Canadian...

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

Perhaps the biggest surprise in Oscar Cahén's life was when Britain arrested him as an 'enemy alien,' imprisoned him, then shipped him to Quebec. There were plenty of surprises in the life of Oscar Cahén, the much-admired artist. As a newcomer from Europe he surprised the Toronto art community by the way he developed as a painter — developed so well that he helped lead Painters Eleven, the rebellious Toronto group that brought the exuberance of abstract art to Canada in the 1

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

https://www.aci-iac.ca/online-exhibitions/double-vision-the-twin-talents-of-oscar-cahn After escaping Nazi Europe, Oscar Cahén (1916–1956) made his name both as Canada’s foremost magazine illustrator and as one of its most renowned abstract painters. Before his tragic death at age 40, Cahén had executed countless covers for Maclean’s magazine and other publications while simultaneously founding the avant-garde collective Painters Eleven. Although he worked in Canada for only

ROBERT ENRIGHT SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED MAY 11, 2018 In a poem called Can Lit published in 1962, Earle Birney lamented that in Canada, “it’s only by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted.” As it went for our writers, so it has gone for our painters. It’s hard to figure out why this has been the case. It may be some combination of indifference, hostility or willful cultural amnesia, but the result has been that our significant artists have ended up being ignored or u

https://150ans150oeuvres.uqam.ca/fr/oeuvre/ http://galerie.uqam.ca/en/exhibitions/virtual.html On May 2, Galerie de l’UQAM launched its...

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

Oct 5, 2017 at 7pm, Beaverbrook Art Gallery Join curator Jeffrey Spalding at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on Thursday, October 5, 2017 at...

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