Photo portrait of Jaleen Grove.

Jaleen Grove

Author

Jaleen Grove served as the Scholar-in-Residence at the Cahén Archives in Toronto 2013–16. An art historian with a specialization in illustration history, Grove is an associate editor of History of Illustration (Bloomsbury, 2018), the first comprehensive book on this topic, as well as associate editor of the Journal of Illustration. She has written several monographs, articles, and book chapters on visual culture and on the state of illustration research, and has lectured and delivered papers in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Grove holds a PhD in art history and criticism from SUNY Stony Brook, an MA in communication and culture from Ryerson University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She maintains a studio practice alongside her research and writing, and in 2018 begins a two-year position as assistant professor in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Online Art Books

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Oscar Cahén: Life & Work

Essays

EssayA Daring Inspiration

Oscar Cahén was a driving force in early Canadian modernism, abstraction, and the Painters Eleven

Spotlights

SpotlightGraphic Aftermath

Oscar Cahén’s cover illustration for Hiroshima, 1946, foregrounds the human costs of war

SpotlightColour as Subject

Pigment comes alive in Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahén’s Small Combo, c.1954

SpotlightFrieze Fantastic

Oscar Cahén’s Multi-part Mural for the Imperial Oil Executive Office Building, 1956, brought modernist style to corporate space

SpotlightCover Story

Oscar Cahén’s Maclean’s illustration, 1952, satirizes Canadian art