ADOLF DEHN: Midcentury Manhattan

The cover of Adolf Dehn features the watercolor titled Spring in Central Park. The painting shows a cityscape behind several trees and a bright green sloping lawn with four people enjoying the park.
Artist Adolf Dehn sits with his legs crossed and a paintbrush in his hand looking at a painting on his easel. In the background is a flat file case with papers stored inside.
A painting by Dehn shows a park with light green grass, a gray walking path that follows the edge of a lake, and many trees with light green foliage.
A lithograph print features six people sitting together in a theater balcony with curtains behind them. One person holds a hand to her mouth to whisper to another while the rest look outward.
A lithograph print shows a large group of people dancing together. A band plays in the background.
In a lithograph print of Central Park South, small figures sit on lawn chairs in the foreground; behind them is a row of trees and a city skyline against a dark gray sky.
Two buildings appear in the foreground; behind them are the docks, a boat in green water, and a city skyline illuminated with yellow light against a dark, cloudy sky.
A watercolor titled Four Burlesque Dancers features four stylized figures with thin waists, wide fluffy skirts, and big hair. They are painted in reds, blues, and greens.
A lithograph print shows three men sitting at a table with a white tablecloth. In the print, two women standing on the other side of the table are bent over with their bottoms in the air.
A watercolor shows several small groups of women dressed in floor-length gowns at a high-society event. The women look across the room with their chins and noses in the air.
A watercolor of a city park features small figures in the foreground who are walking along a path; behind them is a field where a sports event is viewed by a few onlookers.
The cover of Adolf Dehn features the watercolor titled Spring in Central Park. The painting shows a cityscape behind several trees and a bright green sloping lawn with four people enjoying the park.
Artist Adolf Dehn sits with his legs crossed and a paintbrush in his hand looking at a painting on his easel. In the background is a flat file case with papers stored inside.
A painting by Dehn shows a park with light green grass, a gray walking path that follows the edge of a lake, and many trees with light green foliage.
A lithograph print features six people sitting together in a theater balcony with curtains behind them. One person holds a hand to her mouth to whisper to another while the rest look outward.
A lithograph print shows a large group of people dancing together. A band plays in the background.
In a lithograph print of Central Park South, small figures sit on lawn chairs in the foreground; behind them is a row of trees and a city skyline against a dark gray sky.
Two buildings appear in the foreground; behind them are the docks, a boat in green water, and a city skyline illuminated with yellow light against a dark, cloudy sky.
A watercolor titled Four Burlesque Dancers features four stylized figures with thin waists, wide fluffy skirts, and big hair. They are painted in reds, blues, and greens.
A lithograph print shows three men sitting at a table with a white tablecloth. In the print, two women standing on the other side of the table are bent over with their bottoms in the air.
A watercolor shows several small groups of women dressed in floor-length gowns at a high-society event. The women look across the room with their chins and noses in the air.
A watercolor of a city park features small figures in the foreground who are walking along a path; behind them is a field where a sports event is viewed by a few onlookers.

ADOLF DEHN: Midcentury Manhattan

$75.00

BY: PHILIP ELIASOPH, PHD
FOREWORD BY: HENRY ADAMS


Hardcover
11 x 12 inches, 182 pages
109 color plates + 22 black and white
ISBN: 978-0-9962007-1-4

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Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), an American lithographer and watercolorist, captured the golden age of Manhattan in images that reflect the spirit, pulse, and unique tonalities of the city he made his home. Moving adeptly between the mediums of lithography, drawing, and painting, his expert renderings of the city’s burlesque theaters and Harlem nightclubs, extraordinary skyline, teeming harbor, and the bucolic refuge of Central Park, attest to the skill of this exceptional, adventurous, and intrepid artist. The Artist Book Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of this important monograph on a uniquely American artist that includes an extensively researched essay by Philip Eliasoph, PhD, an art historian in Fairfield University’s Visual & Performing Arts department and the author of numerous scholarly books, catalogues, articles, and reviews. In 2016, Eliasoph designed and authored the Arts & Visual Culture blog for the New York Times. He is also an elected member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, UNESCO’s art critic organization based in Paris. Henry Adams contributed an illuminating foreword. Adams is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University and the author of 14 art-related books and catalogues, as well as hundreds of articles on art and artists. He has also served as the curator of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. This is a book for lovers of New York City and beyond that celebrates a prolific artist and his fascination for the metropolis with a fresh, new appreciation of its culture, commerce, urban design, and the eternal romance of art.