Adolf Dehn
American, 1895 - 1968Farm, ca. 1943
Not on view
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions11 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (30.2 × 40.3 cm)
Image: 9 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (24.1 × 30 cm)
Gift of Mrs. R. S. Bishop, 1948.7
Adolph Dehn tirelessly promoted his medium of lithography. He co-authored a book published by the American Artists Group, entitled, “How to Draw and Print Lithographs.” In it he reveals the love he has for printmaking. He wrote: “The true printmaker, like the drug addict, finds himself helpless before his vice! Thoughts of the chaste, unrelenting stone obsess him until he can again violate its surface with caressing grease crayons.”
Fellow artist Guy Pene du Bois praised Dehn’s landscape work and once wrote, “His spirit will remind one of the more grandiose of the Hudson River painters, those proud first press agents of the grandeur of America, but with a truth in his which theirs, so hampered by formulas could never reach.”
