Adolf Dehn: Mid-Century Manhattan

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Jan 27 2017 - Apr 7 2017

This exhibition will explore the Manhattan subjects of National Academician Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), and will coincide with the publication of Adolf Dehn’s Manhattan: Rhapsodies in Blue and Beyond, by Fairfield University art history professor, Philip Eliasoph (The Artist Book Foundation, 2016). 

Visiting, and then living in, New York City Dehn captured the essence of the city in his paintings, prints and drawings of the landscapes of Central Park, and of the city’s burlesque and night club scenes. While best known as a lithographer and one of the founding members of the American Artists Group, Dehn played a significant role in America’s contemporary realist movement starting in the 1930s. He was included in every Whitney Museum of American Art "Annual" and "Biennial" invitational exhibition from the first biennial 1932 into the early 1960's, and still holds the record for being in more of these prestigious shows than any other artist. His work is in the permanent collections of more than eighty museums. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Painting
  • American
  • 20th Century
  • Culture / Lifestyle
  • Adolf Dehn

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