Adolf Dehn lithograph Flamingoes

Description: Adolf Dehn (American, 1895-1968)Flamingoes lithograph, pencil signed l.r., edition of approximately 200, published by Associated American Artists, New York, circa 1936 visible image measures approximately: 13 3/4" W x 9 3/4" Hsheet measures approximately: 16 7/8" W x 13" Hmat measures approximately: 19 3/4" W x 15 7/8" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing (if paying by check or cash, processing fee will be refunded) and carrier fees. If local pickup is selected and if applicable, payment processing fee will still be assessed and due. About Adolf Dehn Adolf Dehn was a lithographer and watercolorist. Dehn was born in Waterville, Minnesota on November 22, 1895. As a young boy he began to sketch farm animals and by age nine dazzled the townsfolk attending the Waterville festival with a large drawing of a train. Being the "first artist of Waterville," he received a scholarship to the University of Minnesota, but decided to attend the Minneapolis School of Art in the fall of 1914. After volunteering for duty in an Asheville, North Carolina hospital during the First World War, Dehn received an honorable discharge and in July 1919, he took a train straight to New York. By 1920, he was studying under Boardman Robinson, who, along with Kenneth Hayes Miller, instructed Dehn in the rudiments of lithography. In 1921, Dehn's work was included as part of a group show of graphic design at New York's Weyhe Gallery. This was followed by a one man exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in 1923. After this exhibition's success, Dehn decided to go to Europe to study art with an emphasis on lithography and printmaking. He worked almost entirely in black and white during the first two decades of his student and professional life. In Europe, Dehn traveled extensively through Germany, France and England. He eventually settled in Vienna in 1924, only to return to the United States after the economic crash of 1929. The prints Dehn made in Europe between 1928 and 1932 were exhibited in several one man exhibits beginning in 1935, 1939 and 1940 at the Weyhe Gallery. In 1930, Dehn established his studio in New York which he kept until 1954. During this period he focused on New York City subjects. As an artist of the Depression-age, Dehn was aided by his commercial art contributions to The New Yorker, Vogue, Ringmaster, and The New York Times. In 1939, Adolf Dehn was awarded his first Guggenheim Fellowship. This grant gave him the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the United States and Mexico. Dehn also used this fellowship money in 1940 to spend some time in Colorado Springs, where he proceeded to teach at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for three years. Life magazine reproduced many of Dehn’s watercolors from his Guggenheim travels across America in their August 11, 1941 issue. In 1941 when America entered the war against Japan and Germany, Dehn was forty-six, too old to be a soldier. Seeking a way to help the Allied cause, he created a series of paintings for the U.S. Navy depicting the training, patrol and warfare of the air arm of the Navy. Some of Dehn's watercolors for Standard Oil of New Jersey were also used to illustrate the necessity of oil during wartime. In 1948, Dehn spent his first winter in Key West, Florida. This led to his agreeing to teach at the Norton Museum School in West Palm Beach, Florida in the winter of 1951. Dehn was awarded another Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951 that granted him the opportunity to travel to new places, such as Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean. He added the Yucatan and Guatemala to his travels in 1955. In 1961, Dehn's success was recognized by the National Academy of Design and he was made an Academician in honor of his forty years of significant achievements. In 1965, Dehn was elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Adolf Dehn died of a heart attack in New York City on May 19, 1968.

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