EXHIBITIONS | oscar-cahen

Annual exhibition of the Art Director’s Club of Toronto, Eaton’s Fine Art Galleries, Toronto, Solo on the Coronet illustration for New Liberty Magazine, Reproduced in the First Annual, Art Director’s Club of Toronto, Toronto

1949

Annual Exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal

1950 March 3 – April 16

Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Arts, Joint exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ontario Society of artists Canadian Group of Painters, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Sculptor’s Society of Canada, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Royal Architectural Institute, The Canadian Handicrafts Guild, Canadian Guild of Potters, Spinners and Weavers of Ontario; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1950

First Annual Exhibition of Unaffiliated Artists, Eaton’s Fine Art Gallery, Eaton’s-College Street, Toronto

1950 Dec 2- 313rd

Annual Winter exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton

1951

Oscar Cahén, The International Art-House Cinema, Toronto

1951

Second Annual Exhibition of Unaffiliated Artists, Eaton’s Fine Art Gallery, Eaton’s – College Street, Toronto

1951 March- April

Annual Exhibition, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1951, Mar-April

79th annual spring exhibition of OSA, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1951

Canadian National Exhibition, Art Exhibition

1951Nov – 1952 Jan.

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

1952 April – June

Annual Exhibition, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1952 March- April

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1952 October

Canadian Abstract Exhibition / Oshawa YWCA, sponsored by the South Ontario Galleries, 2 pg. catalogue. Artists: Leo Bellefleur, W. Roloff Beny, Bertram Brooker, Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Rody Kernny Courtice, Hortense M. Gordon, Lawren Harris, Yvonne McKague Housser, Tom Hodgson, Ronald Lambert, Alexanda Luke, John Martin, John Ray Mead, J. W. G. MacDonald, Louis Muhlstock, Joseph Plaskett, William Ronald, Marian Scott, J. L. Shadbolt, Perce Tacon, Lionel Thomas, Harold Town, Sydney Watson, A. Weininger

1952 Oct. - 1953 Jan.

Canadian Group of Painters

1952 Nov.

Seventh Annual Sale of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1952, December

5th Annual Winter Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton

1953 Jan – Feb.

Annual Exhibition, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Toronto

1953 Feb- Mar

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1953 April

Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1953

Canadian Group of Painters, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1953

Canadian National Exhibition, Art Exhibition

1953 October

Abstracts at Home, The Robert Simpson Co., Toronto

1953 Nov.6-15

Women’s Committee 7th Annual Sale of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1953

Annual Exhibition of Canadian Painting, NGC

1953 Nov.– Jan.1954

Royal Canadian Academy of Art, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1953, 8 Dec.- 15 Feb 1954

Second Bienal do Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil, [Canadian section also at the Tenth Inter-American Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, Mar. 1954 / section canadienne aussi présentée à la dixième réunion Inter-American, Caracas, Venezuela, mars 1954], Sao Paulo

1954 Jan- Feb

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954 Feb- Mar

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954 May

Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954, May 8

An exhibition of Drawings and Graphics 1947-1954: Kasuo (sic)Nakamura, Harold Town, Oscar Cahén, Eglinton Gallery, Toronto

1954

Annual Exhibition, Canadian Group of Painters, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954

Canadian National Exhibition, Art Exhibition

1954 Feb 13-27

Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto circulated to Robertson Gallery, Ottawa in late March to early April 1954

1954, October 18- Nov 1st

Oscar Cahén, Art Gallery of Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto

1954, May 21-June 20

Richard Bowman, Oscar Cahén, William McCloy, Cecil Richards, Special Exhibition Room, Art Gallery of Toronto

1954, November

Women’s Committee Sale, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1954

Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, On., Windsor

1954 Nov 19-1955 Jan 1st

Canadian Group of Painters exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1955 Feb 11-26

Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto. Circulated to Y.W.C.A. (Adelaide House), Oshawa in March

1955 October 21-31

Women’s Committee 9th sale, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1955 November – 1956 January

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1955

Canadian Society of Graphic Art

1955 Dec – Jan.1956

Painters Eleven organized by St. Catherines Public Library, Circulated to London Public Library and Art Museum, January; Hart House Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, February; 27-March 4; McLaughlin Public Library, Oshawa March 22-April 5;Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, April 6 – May 2; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, On., May 1956.

1955-56

Canadian Group of Painters exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1955 November

The Winnipeg Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

1956 Feb- Mar

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1956 Mar-April

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour at Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1956 June 8 – July 3

Canadian Abstract Painting, National Gallery of Canada

1956 June

Canadian Abstract Paintings, The Smithsonian Institution, Circulating exhibition 1956-1957

1956 Summer, [Aug 3]

Canadian Water Colors, DeCordova Museum Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA, Lincoln

1956 Feb. 28-March 7

Small Pictures by Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto

1956

Painters Eleven, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto

1956, April 8- May 20

American Abstract Artists 20th Annual exhibition with ‘Painters Eleven’ of Canada, Riverside Museum, New York

1956

Canadian National Exhibition, Art Exhibition

1956

Exhibition of paintings, watercolours, graphic arts and works of sculpture, Globe and Mail exhibition-Grand and Toy Ltd., Toronto

1956 November 4-25

The 2nd Winnipeg Show”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

1956 Nov.- Dec.

Canadian Group of Painters, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1957 Vancouver Art Gallery

1956

A joint Exhibition of Watercolours by Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and the California Water Color Society, National Gallery of Canada

1957 Feb – Mar

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Art Gallery of Toronto Toronto

1957 Feb – Mar

Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1957 May

Canadian Art Exhibition, Imperial Oil, Toronto

1957 May 30-June 19

Painters Eleven, Allan Gallery, Hamilton

1957 Oct. 31-Nov.15

Painters Eleven and the Work of Ten Distinguished Artists from Quebec, Park Gallery

1958

Painters Eleven, Ecole des Beaux Arts Montreal

1958

Painters Eleven, Park Gallery, Toronto, Toronto

1958-59

Points of View, Public Library and Art Museum, London, On., Oct 17-Nov 26, 1958, Circulated to Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, On., December

1958

Hart House Art Gallery, University of Toronto, On., Jan 5-25, 1959, Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, On., March 1959

1958-59

Painters Eleven, National Gallery of Canada circulating exhibition. Winnipeg Art Gallery Sept 5-21, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Sept 26-Oct 12, Allied Arts Council, Calgary, Nov 7-23, Norman Mackenzie art Gallery, Regina, Nov 28- Dec 28, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Jan. 2-18, 1959, Agnes Etherington art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, On., Feb 13-Mar.1, 1959, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison School of Fine and Applied Art, Sackville, NB, Mar 6-22

1959 Mar 21-April 19

Memorial Exhibition, 87th annual exhibition; the Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto

1959 Oct. 1-14

Oscar Cahén, Roberts Gallery, Toronto

1959

Park Gallery, Toronto

1960

Painters Eleven, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo

1960 March 11- 27

Paintings by Oscar Cahén, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery XII, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montreal

1959

6th Winnipeg Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Touring show, Brandon, Calgary, New Westminster and Kelowna

1961

‘Here and Now’, Art Gallery Ltd., Toronto

1962

National Trust Building, Toronto

1962 June

Oscar Cahén, Dorothy Cameron Gallery

1962 Sept – Oct

15 Years in Retrospect, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1962, October

'Exhibition of Canadian Art', J.B. Speed Museum, Kentucky, Louisville

1963 May 18 – June 5

Oscar Cahén 1916-1956, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto

1963 Nov.30-Dec.18

Oscar Cahén Drawings and Sarah Jackson, New Sculptures, Jerrold Morris International Gallery

1964

Oscar Cahén, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto

1968

Alexandra Luke Collection, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa

1968 Sep. 30-Nov 10

Oscar Cahén: First American Retrospective, Ringling Museum, Sarasota

1971

Painters Eleven 1953- 1960, Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa

1972

Toronto Painting 1953-1965, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, On. Sept 15-Oct. 15, 1972; and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, On., Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 1972

1973

Painters Eleven, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

1975

Painters Eleven, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

1975

Painters Eleven: Spectrum 1975, Sudbury Arts Festival, Sudbury, On., organized by Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery

1975

50 Years of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour 1953-1965, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1975 Dec. – 1976 Jan.

50 Years The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour 1953- 1965, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1979-81

Painters Eleven in Retrospect, Art Gallery of Ontario, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Oct. 30-Dec. 2 1979. Circulated to: The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, On., Jan. 1- Feb. 3, 1980, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, On., Mar. 8-April 12, 1980, London Regional art Gallery, London, On., July 1 – Aug 24, 1980, Agnes Etherington art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, On. Sept. 7-Oct.13, Hart House art Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, On., Nov 4.-Dec. 12 1980Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Jan. 14-Feb 12 1981, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, March 1-31, 1981; Art Gallery of Nova scotia, Halifax, NS, May 1-31, 1981, The Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory, Saskatoon, SK, July 28-Aug 29, 1981, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, On. Sept 10-Oct. 4, 1981, MacDonald stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, On. Oct 15-Nov 30, 1981

1983-84

Oscar Cahén Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, On., Dec 16, 1983-Feb. 12, 1984. Circulated to St. John's, Windsor, Edmonton, Winnipeg

1992

Origins of Abstraction in Ontario : the Abstracts at home show, 1953, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Civic Centre, Oshawa, 3 September-14 October 1992 / Joan Murray

1993-94

The Crisis of Abstraction in Canada: the 1950s, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, touring exhibition circulated to Quebec City, Regina, Calgary, Hamilton

2003-4

1953, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, touring exhibition circulated to Art Gallery of Mississauga and Mendel Art Gallery and Conservatory, Saskatoon

2006/7

Oscar Cahén, Gallery Moos Toronto

2006/7

Oscar Cahén, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

2006

Oscar Cahén, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto

2009

Heartland exhibition curated by Jeffrey Spalding, Toronto Art Fair, Toronto

2010 July 8 – Sept 10

Oscar Cahén and Gershon Iskowitz: Artists Caught in Hitler’s Web, Exhibition curated by Jeffrey Spalding, Horton Gallery (Sunday L.E.S.), New York

2011 Oct 1-30

Oscar Cahén: Canada's Groundbreaking Illustrator, Exhibition at Illustration House, New York

2012 June 12- Oct 12 2013

"Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943, Vancouver Holocause Education Centre, Vancouver

2012 July 24-25

Research Colloquium I, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver

2012 Oct 4 - Dec 1

Oscar Cahén: Canada's Groundbreaking Illustrator, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Calgary

2013 April 6 - June 2

Oscar Cahén: Canada's Groundbreaking Illustrator, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Main Gallery, Banff, Alberta

2013 October 25-28

Art Dealer's Association of Canada at Art Toronto, the 14th Toronto International Art Fair

2014 Feb 13

Canadian Abstraction, Sotheby's S|2, New York

2014 March

"Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943, Sherbrooke Historical Society, Quebec

2014 April 16

The Life and Art of Oscar Cahén, Research Colloquium II, The Cahén Archives, Toronto

2014 June

Sketches 2014: Painters 11, June Roberts Gallery

2017 September 23 to Jan 2018

Oscar Cahén Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton

2019 October 8 - November 16

Discovering Oscar Cahén, TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary

2021 November 13 - December 12

Discovering Oscar Cahén: The Warrior (1916–1956) at Feheley Fine Arts/Centre Space, Toronto. In special collaboration with Feheley Fine Arts, TrépanierBaer is thrilled to present an exhibition of outstanding works by Canadian abstract painter and illustrator, Oscar Cahén. A major highlight includes Cahén’s monumental canvas Warrior, completed shortly before his sudden passing by automobile accident in 1956. Fittingly, Warrior’s legacy comes full circle in this exhibition at Feheley Fine Arts, as the piece was originally shown for the very first time at M.F. (Budd) Feheley’s Park Gallery in 1959.

2021 December 11 - October 9 2022

Complete Freedom, Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Small Structure exhibited as part of Painters Eleven show.

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