Adolf Dehn

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Adolf Dehn
Dehn working on a painting for submission to Art Week, 1940
Born(1895-11-22)November 22, 1895
Waterville, Minnesota, United States
DiedMay 19, 1968(1968-05-19) (aged 72)
New York City, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationMinneapolis College of Art and Design; Art Students League, New York City
Known forLithography, illustration, drawing, watercolors, casein painting
MovementRegionalism, social realism, caricature
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2), National Academy of Design, American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Convoy Brook, Abbott Collection, Paintings of Naval Aviation during World War II

Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles.

Biography[edit]

Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images.

After graduating as valedictorian from Waterville High School in 1914, he went to the Minneapolis School of Art[1] (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gág.[2] She was Dehn's first love and the two were "practically inseparable for the next five years... " (1916–1921).[3] In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest.[4]

Early career[edit]

In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists.[5] In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings.

Dehn found living in Europe cheap and was able to embark on artist adventures of what some consider the "glory years" of the 20s. About his time in Europe, he said, "Life in Paris is simply glorious."[6] He supported himself through his time in Europe by providing light-hearted cartoons and scenic European landscapes to editors back in the U.S. A number of the caricatures he drew depicting the Roaring 20s, burlesque, opera houses, and the café scene appeared in such magazines as Vanity Fair. Dehn himself felt that his caricatures and cartoons were different from others because his motives were "never really political" but more focused on social commentary.[7] The fame that Dehn achieved during his time in Europe, his illustrations appearing in many leftist publications such as The Liberator, The New Masses, and The Dial, was noted by hometown paper The Minneapolis Journal in 1925. The publication described Dehn as "being born with a pitchfork in his mouth" while commenting on the worldly nature of his drawings.[8]

His favorite medium was lithography, and he alternated between spoofing high society and creating beautiful landscapes. Throughout his time in Europe, Dehn was in contact with many other notable intellectuals and artists of the time, including Josephine Baker, Kurt Weill, and Leo Stein.[9] It was in Paris that Dehn met his first wife, Mura Ziperovitch (Mura Dehn), a dancer who had left revolutionary Russia. Upon his return to the U.S. the Chicago Tribune's Paris edition published a farewell to Dehn, stating, "We are sorry to see that Adolf Dehn is going back to America," marking the impression his presence made among the inhabitants of Montparnasse.[10]

Later career[edit]

In 1929 Dehn returned to New York City with his wife.[1] In New York, he began to focus his art on depicting scenes of Manhattan, showcasing the skyline and views of the city from the Staten Island Ferry.[11] As the Great Depression had taken hold of the country, Dehn and his wife were desperately poor, and their financial difficulties contributed to their ultimate divorce. In the 1930s, his work began to appear in magazines such as The New Yorker and Vogue. During his period as a lithographer, his striking images of New York, including Central Park, captured the essence of the Roaring 20s and the 1930s Depression.

Beginning in 1930, Dehn made numerous trips back to his home in Minnesota, where he could live cheaply, and he executed a significant number of drawings and lithographs based on Midwest scenes. He also summered on Martha's Vineyard from 1933 to 1936, often in the company of Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock, Georges Schreiber, and others in the vicinity of Gay Head and Menemsha, and joined by his girlfriend at the time, Eileen Lake.[12]

In the early 1930s, Dehn established The Adolf Dehn Print Club and became a founding member of the Associated American Artists.[4] Prints magazine selected Dehn as one of the 10 best printmakers in the United States in 1936.[4]

Dehn earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939,[1] which allowed him to travel to the western United States and Mexico. In the early 40s, he worked as an instructor of etching and lithography at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and received a citation from the U.S. treasury department for "Distinguished Service Rendered in Behalf of War Savings Program."[4]

Dehn started executing watercolors in late 1936, admitting he had "been afraid of color" in the first decades of his career.[13] He rose to the top tier of American watercolorists in short order, seen in a feature article on his landscape watercolors in Life magazine (August, 1941) and a traveling show organized by the Museum of Modern Art, "Four American Water Colorists" (1943–44) in which eleven Dehn watercolors were joined with the works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Charles Burchfield.[13] Dehn's watercolors were described to have a "homely poetry with a modern sensitiveness."[14] Watercolor painting and casein painting represented signature second and third arms of Dehn's artistic output for the rest of his career.

In 1944, Dehn met Virginia Engleman, who was working in the Associated American Artists printshop. The couple married in 1947 and enjoyed an artistic collaboration for the rest of his life.[4] In the 1940s, Dehn began to sell more lithographs and to teach other American artists lithography techniques. In 1947 he joined the Society of American Graphic Artists, exhibiting his lithograph, Lake in Central Park, in the 32nd Annual Exhibition for $5.00. Dehn published his first book, titled Water Color Painting, in 1945.[4] As he became more widely recognized and financially successful, he was able to travel extensively. As well as visiting and painting Key West and the southwestern region of the United States, he went to Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Afghanistan and other areas of the world. The wide range of subject matter found in his prints, drawings, and paintings reflects his travels. He was awarded a second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951.[4]

In 1961, Dehn was elected as a full academician to the National Academy of Design, and in 1965 he was elected as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He visited Paris for the last time in 1967, where he worked at the Atelier Desjobert.[4]

Dehn died in New York City on May 19, 1968, after suffering a heart attack.[15] He is remembered as a prolific artist of great range. His works are held in over 100 museums (including the National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art); over 25 museums hold extensive collections of his output. Many prominent galleries represented Dehn as his fame grew, and posthumously, among them Harmon-Meek Gallery and Thomas French Fine Art.

Works[edit]

Paintings and drawings[edit]

Dehn had a distinct style of illustration and painting. His drawings of this period exhibit freedom in line and form along with social satire.[12] Dehn's landscapes suggest the grandeur of nature, and a signature element in them for which Dehn was praised was the magnificence of his clouds.

Prints[edit]

Many of Dehn's prints are made using tusche, a liquid lithographic medium which allows for fluid effects. He has been called the "Debussy of American lithography" and "Dean of American lithography" by printmaking experts Clinton Adams and Philadelphia Museum of Art's Prints and Drawings curator, Carl Zigrosser. With his art Dehn introduced new techniques that had never before been used in lithography, and was praised as one of the world's leading printmakers.[12]

Additional works and photos[edit]

In an artist statement he wrote for an exhibit at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Dehn said, "My paintings are my statement. What I have to offer as a painter is direct and simple and words are necessary to a greater understanding or enjoyment of them."[16]

Collections[edit]

Selected museum and other institutional collections holding Adolf Dehn paintings and/or prints as part of their permanent collections include the following.[17]

Museum/institution Location
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY
Arizona State University Art Museum Tempe, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
Art Museum of Western Virginia (now Taubman Museum of Art) Roanoke, VA
Audubon House and Tropical Gardens Key West, FL
The Baker Museum Artis-Naples Naples, FL
Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan Alpena, MI
Boca Raton Museum of Art Boca Raton, FL
British Museum London, UK
Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody, WY
The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH
Canton Museum of Art Canton, OH
Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA
Charles H. MacNider Art Museum Mason City, IA
Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Colorado Springs, CO
Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, OH
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens Jacksonville, FL
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University Providence, RI
Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Lincoln, MA
Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI
El Paso Museum of Art El Paso, TX
Everhart Museum Scranton, PA
Fairfield University Art Museum Fairfield, CT
Farnsworth Art Museum Rockland, ME
Fayetteville Museum of Art Fayetteville, NC
Flint Institute of Art Flint, MI
The George Washington University Dimmock Gallery Washington, DC
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia Athens, GA
Golisano Children's Museum of Naples Naples, FL
Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, MI
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Los Angeles, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC
Hofstra University Museum Hempstead, NY
Illinois State Museum Springfield, IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN
Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College Wellesley, MA
Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, NE
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Kalamazoo, MI
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
La Salle University Art Museum Philadelphia, PA
Le Sueur County Historical Society LeCenter, MN
Louisiana Arts & Science Museum Baton Rouge, LA
LSU Libraries, LSU Baton Rouge, LA
Luther College Decorah, IA
McNay Art Museum San Antonio, TX
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College Amherst, MA
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester Rochester, NY
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Memphis, TN
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
Midwest Museum of American Art Elkhart, IN
Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Historical Society St. Paul, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art St. Paul, MN
Missouri State University Collection Springfield, MO
Mitchell Wolfson Collection Miami Beach, FL
Montclair Art Museum Montclair, NJ
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Utica, NY
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri Columbia, MO
Museum of Art - DeLand Deland, FL
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Fine Arts Springfield Museums Springfield, MA
Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
Naval History and Heritage Command Museums Washington, DC
New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT
New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA
Newark Museum Newark, NJ
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences (now Chrysler Museum of Art) Norfolk, VA
Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach, FL
Ohio Wesleyan University Art Collection Delaware, OH
Paine Art Center and Gardens Oshkosh, WI
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA
Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, OK
Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York Plattsburgh, NY
Portland Art Museum Portland, OR
Queens Museum Queens, NY
Radford University Art Museum Radford, VA
Roswell Museum & Art Center Roswell, NM
Saint Louis Art Museum St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
São Paulo Museum of Art São Paulo, Brazil
Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, DC
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Loretto, PA
Speed Art Museum Louisville, KY
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS
Springfield Art Museum Springfield, MO
Swope Art Museum Terre Haute, IN
Syracuse University Art Galleries Syracuse, NY
Terra Museum of American Art (now closed) Chicago, IL
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University Wichita, KS
The University of Arizona Museum of Art Tucson, AZ
University of New Mexico Art Museum Albuquerque, NM
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA
The von Liebig Art Center Naples, FL
Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science Sioux Falls, SD
Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum Wichita, KS
Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University Wichita Falls, TX
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum Woodstock, NY
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College Beloit, WI
Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
Yellowstone Art Museum Billings, MT

Exhibition history[edit]

Adolf Dehn exhibitions, 1915–2021:[18]

Year Title Location Month
2021 Dehn and Dehn: Selected Works of Adolf and Virginia Dehn The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, VT May
2020 People & Places Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL April
2019 Engaging the Far West: Adolf Dehn's Colorado and Peter Hurd's New Mexico D. Wigmore Gallery, New York, NY December
Adolf Dehn's New York Delamar Hotels, Greenwich, CT November
Terra Florida (4-artist show) D. Wigmore Gallery, New York, NY March
2017 A.D. Retrospective Museum of Art, Deland, FL July
Adolf Dehn and the American Land Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO December
Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT January- April
Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terra Haute, IN June- August
Artist Book Foundation (at MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA October
2016 Adolf Dehn: At Home and Far Afield Tremaine Art Center, Suffield Academy, Suffueld, CT January- March
Adolf Dehn’s Pennsylvania Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA January- April
The Gentle Satire of Adolf Dehn Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA August- December
2015 A.D. in the Caribbean Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL April
The Other Side of Midnight: Paintings and Prints by A.D. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana June
Adolf Dehn: Landscapes Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO May
2012 Dehn’s Dames Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL December
2011 Adolf Dehn: A Retrospective Bonham Creative Arts Center, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT April- May
2010 Landscapes from Around the World Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL April
Adolf Dehn, Works on Paper Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY April
2009 A Touch of Humor William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT June- July
Adolf Dehn: Love, Labour, Leisure Mercy Gallery, Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT September- October
2008 Politically Incorrect with Adolf Dehn Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL January
2007 Prints and Drawings Asylum Hill Gallery, Hartford, CT March
2005 Adolf Dehn Winterscapes Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL December
Works on Paper by Adolf Dehn Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, SD December
2004 Adolf Dehn Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO September
Adolf Dehn: The General Strike, 1926, Pastels of the Rhonda Valley Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY July
2003 Adolf Dehn: Works from the Permanent Collection Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA October
2002 Love, Labor, Leisure Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL March
March Exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2001 Adolf Dehn in Afghanistan Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL November
1997 A Visit to Tuscany Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL May
1996 Nature & Human Nature: The Art of Adolf Dehn Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA January
The Humor of Adolf Dehn The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngtown, OH March
Adolf Dehn: The Incurable Traveller, Lithographs 1922-1967 Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY April
1995 Nature & Human Nature: The Art of A.D. Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA March
Centennial: Adolf Dehn and the American Scene James J. Hill House, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN February
1994 Midwest Landscapes by Adolf Dehn Spiva Center for the Arts, Missouri State University, Joplin, MO February
Funny People by Adolf Dehn Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL April
1993 Adolf Dehn Melvin Art Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL January
The Colorado Work of Adolf Dehn Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art, Aspen, CO February
Modernist Colorado Artists with a Special Focus on Adolf Dehn Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art, Aspen, CO August
Adolf Dehn, The Butler Inst of American Art Salem Branch Museum, Salem, OR November
1992 Adolf Dehn Retrospective Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL March
1991 Adolf Dehn Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL April
Adolf Dehn: A Life’s Work 1992-1965 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL November
1990 Adolf Dehn Retrospective Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL January
Funsence: Satirical Drawings and Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL March
1988 Adolf Dehn and American Lithography between the Wars James J. Hill House, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN January
Adolf Dehn: A Retrospective of Prints Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY February
1987 Adolf Dehn Retrospective / American Landscapes in Watercolor Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY January
Adolf Dehn Watercolors Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME February
Scene and Satire Supreme: The Lithographs of Adolf Dehn June 1 Gallery, Bethlehem, PA November
The Social Graces 1905-41, group exhibition (4 Adolf Dehn works) The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY July
1986 Adolf Dehn Retrospective / American Landscapes in Watercolor Traveling exhibition lent by Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MN February
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL April
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX June
Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA August
Le Sueur County Historical Society, Waterville, MN October
Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD December
1985 Adolf Dehn Retrospective / American Landscapes in Watercolor Traveling exhibition lent by Harmon-Meeks Gallery, Naples, FL
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN January
Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts (now Art Museum of Western Virginia), Roanoke, VA March
Canton Art Institute (now Canton Art Museum), Canton, OH May
Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, IA July
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN September
Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH October
Sheldon Swope Art Gallery (now Swope Art Museum), Terra Haute, IN December
1983 Dehn and Dehn Fine Arts America, Richmond, VA February
1982 Adolf Dehn and Eliot O’Hara Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL; traveling exhibition lent by Harmon-Meek Gallery April
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI June
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN July–August
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY November
1981 Adolf Dehn: The Memorial Retrospective Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL March
1979 Adolf Dehn The Full Range June 1 Gallery, Bethlehem, CT; represented by Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY March
1977 Adolf Dehn 1895-1965 Watercolors, Drawings, Lithographs Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, IL January
1972 The Many Faces of Adolf Dehn: Lithographs June 1 Gallery, Bethlehem, CT July
1970-1971 Represented by Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY
1969 The Adolf Dehn Exhibition Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, TX July
Adolf Dehn, 1895-1968 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1968 Retrospective exhibition Far Gallery, New York, NY January
Retrospective exhibition The Century Association, New York, NY February
Adolf Dehn Paintings and Lithographs Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, MD March
1966 Watercolors by Adolf Dehn The Museum of Fine Arts and Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, MA September
1965 New Watercolors Milch Gallery, New York, NY March
American Landscape Drawings Berkshire Museum, Lenox, MA
1964 Adolf Dehn Retrospective of Lithographs, 1920-1963 Far Gallery, New York, NY March
Oils, Watercolors, and Prints of Adolf Dehn Flair House Gallery, Cincinnati, OH October
The Fabulous Decade The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, NJ May
1963 The Lithographs of Adolf Dehn University of Maine Art Gallery, Orono, ME April
1962 Lithographs by Adolf and Virginia Dehn Gallery 10, New Hope, PA April
26 New Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Associated American Artist Galleries, New York, NY April
1961 Adolf Dehn Retrospective University of Missouri Art Department Gallery, Columbia, MO February
1960 New Casein Paintings Milch Gallery, New York, NY October
1958 Thirty Years of Lithography Krasner Gallery, New York, NY February
Adolf Dehn Retrospective University of Missouri Art Department Gallery, MO February
1957 New Paintings Milch Gallery, New York, NY March
1956 New Paintings Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY February
1955 Watercolors of Adolf Dehn Carnegie Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, ME November
1953 Adolf Dehn Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY November
1951 Haitian World Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY November
Thirty Lithographs of Adolf Dehn University of Maine Gallery, Orono, ME November
1949 Commemorative Exhibition of Adolf Dehn’s Twenty-five Years’ Work in Lithography Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY September
1948 Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1947 Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC February
Adolph Dehn: New Lithographs Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY April
1945 Solo exhibition at national museum, Caracas, Venezuela
1944 Four American Watercolorists Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Naval Aviation Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY January
1943 International Watercolor Exhibit (awarded first prize) The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Naval Aviation National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC November
1942 Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1941 The Satirical and the Lyrical Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, NY March
1940 Watercolors by Adolf Dehn Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1939 Solo exhibition Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1938 First watercolor exhibition Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1935 Solo exhibition Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1932 Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1931 Ink Drawings by Adolf Dehn Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1930 Fifty New Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY April
1929 Drawings and Lithographs by Adolf Dehn Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY February
1928 Solo gallery exhibition Paris, France
1925 Drawings by A.D. Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY January
1923 Group exhibition Wurthle and Sohn Gallery, Vienna, Austria
First solo exhibition The Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY April
1915 First museum show (drawings) Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Sources[edit]

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  2. ^ "Philadelphia Area Archives".
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  5. ^ Eliasoph, Philip (2017). "Dangerous Girls: Expatriate Pleasures - "Le Crazy Years"". Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan. The Artist Book Foundation. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-9962007-1-4.
  6. ^ Letter to Emily Dehn, Dehn family archives
  7. ^ Cox, "Adolf Dehn: Satirist of the Jazz Age", p.13
  8. ^ "Dehn, Minneapolis Artist, Wins Vogue in New York, Paris," Minneapolis Journal, February 25, 1925
  9. ^ Glassco, John. Memoirs of Montparnasse. New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2001, p.12-13
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