More than five years in the making, Oscar Cahén is published in a collaboration between The Cahén Archives and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

 

With the aid of extensive research from The Cahén Archives, ten contributors cast new light on the life and career of the European-born Canadian artist Oscar Cahén, from the shadows of his early life, staying one step ahead of the Nazis, through to his spectacular rise as Canada’s greatest illustrator and principle founder of the avant- garde Painters Eleven, until his tragic and untimely death in 1956 in Toronto.

 

"From that afternoon on November 26, 1956, I have always known what my duty to my father was to be. First, to conserve and protect the work - a project started in earnest some 3 decades ago, next to establish The Cahén Archives, The Cahén Fonds, and The Cahén Catalogue Raisonné - and now, based on that work, the Oscar Cahén Monograph. Over the years there have been times when I felt my father’s hand on my shoulder. Seeing this book come to fruition was one of those special moments.” Michael Cahén

 

Alcuin Award: Meeting all of the judging criteria, from the design concept in relation to the intellectual nature of the content, through to the use of colour, type, illustration and photographic styles, including the stock used, jacket binding, and overall finish, Oscar Cahén is a recent winner in the Alcuin Society Book Design Awards in the prestigious Limited Edition category. Oscar Cahén will be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in the Fall of 2018, and presented at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs, and at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo in conjunction with the International Book Fair.

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Title

Oscar Cahén

 

Publisher 

The Cahén Archives, Toronto, Ontario in collaboration with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

 

Contributors

Gary Michael Dault

Cheryle Harrison

Jaleen Grove

Roald Nasgaard

Rebecca Pavitt

Richard Rhodes

Jeffrey Spalding

Cy Strom

Karen Wilkin

Adam Welch

 

Designer

Designed and typeset by Frances Hunter,

Beacon Hill Communications Group 

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