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Title: Oscar Cahen: First American Retrospective Exhibition September 30--November 10 1968
Description: Sarasota, FL: Ringling Museum of Art, 1968. First Edition (?). Softcover. Illustrated by Oscar Cahen. Exhibition Catalogue Series; B/W; 8 1/2 x 11"; Unpaginated pages; Stapled wraps. Light rubbing and sunning to cover. Illustrated with 5 b/w pictures. Pages nt numbered; 8 pages. Exhibition catalogue of 44 paintings. Foreword by Evan H. Turner, introduction by Karl Nickel." Oscar Cahén (sometimes spelled Oscar Cahen) ( 1916 – 1956) was a Canadian painter and illustrator. Cahén is best known as a member of Painters Eleven, a group of abstract artists active in Toronto from 1953-1960, and for his fifteen years of work as an illustrator for Canadian magazines. Cahén had an unusual ability to move from one medium to another and from representational to abstract idioms with equal success. Perhaps his most original contribution was a technique he called “monoetching, ” which involved applying a thin layer of wax to an illustration board which he then scratched through with a needle. He would then apply a water-based pigment overtop which would seep through the scratches into the exposed board beneath. However, more than any other of his talents, Cahén is probably best remembered today for his colour sense, as his best known works often combined orange and pink along with reds, blues and greens. ". Fine .

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