If you happen to be near Stockbridge, MA, why not take in a talk about Russell Patterson by this past week's guest author, Jaleen Grove?Details at the Norman Rockwell Museum websi...
Friday, 30 September 2011
By Jaleen GroveCahén avoided rough work in order to preserve the spontaneity of the first attempt:"I do many sketches before starting a painting, but in my illustrations I rarely make such preliminary drawings. In fact, much to the dismay of art directors, my "roughs" are usually so sketchy that I can't make them out myself. What I do is to start my finished drawing with a hard pencil right on the board, then I ink in the final design and erase the...
Thursday, 29 September 2011
By Jaleen GroveWith his European training and creativity, Oscar Cahén was soon able to pick his work. For 70 years Canadians had been running to New York in search of better jobs. But when he was offered a high salary of $25,000 to join an ad agency (some sources say Esquire) in New York before 1951, Cahén opted to remain in Canada with an income of $15,000, perhaps in part because he was allowed much autonomy and a closer relationship with art directors...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
By Jaleen GroveIn his 16 years of Canadian illustrating, there are at least 12 stylistic approaches so different that the casual observer would likely not detect only one artist behind them all, although a few of these Oscar Cahén did frequently enough to ensure some “name” recognition. New Liberty, 1948.Occasionally, Oscar Cahén’s illustrations reveal innovative surprises: collaged newspaper on one story...... in the mailbox of a MacLean’s cover.........
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
By Jaleen GroveWhen Cahén began illustrating in Canada in 1941, conditions favoured innovation because not only was the Second World War upsetting norms and creating new opportunities in poster design, animation and other communication arts, it was giving Canada a new sense of itself as a nation, rather than as a British colony.We don’t know where either of these images appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.One of Cahén’s first art directors,...
Monday, 26 September 2011
By Jaleen GroveIt’s not every day that a Canadian illustrator gets a solo show in New York. Especially a deceased one that few know about. Fiction illustration for “A Cage for the Bird Man,” Maclean’s, 1954.“There isn’t any doubt that Oscar Cahén was the greatest single force in Canadian illustration since [Charles W] Jefferys.” In 1959, these were the words of Stan Furnival, art director at Maclean’s Magazine....
Friday, 23 September 2011
Thomas Vroman was an illustrator and graphic designer whose work began appearing in major publications in the mid-1950s. In 1956, Collier's magazine published a spectacular series of historical illustrations by Vroman... ... done in his highly attractive, highly decorative, signature style. Vroman's inventive, forward-looking style was not necessarily appreciated by all of Collier's readers. During...
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