Oscar Cahén Book Now Available

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TrépanierBaer Gallery has released the award-winning, limited-edition book Oscar Cahén. More than five years in the making, the book is a collaboration between the Cahén Archives and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.

With the aid of extensive research from the Cahén Archives, the book's 10 contributors have cast new light on the life and career of the European-born Canadian artist. The book looks at the shadows of his early life,  one step ahead of the Nazis, follows his spectacular rise as one of Canada’s greatest illustrators and the principal founder of the avant-garde Painters Eleven, and ends with his untimely death in 1956 in Toronto.

Cahén's son, Michael, says he has known his duty to his father since his death.

"First, to conserve and protect the work – a project started in earnest some three 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," he says. "Seeing this book come to fruition was one of those special moments.” 

The monograph, which has already won a major book award, is available through TrépanierBaer Gallery in Calgary and the Cahén Archives. An e-book is also available through the Cahén Archives.

The book's contributors are Gary Michael Dault, Cheryle Harrison, Jaleen Grove, Roald Nasgaard, Rebecca Pavitt, Richard Rhodes, Jeffrey Spalding, Cy Strom, Adam Welch and Karen Wilkin. 

Source:  TrépanierBaer Gallery