Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Dorothy Dehner was one of the important women artists in the United States in the mid-century American abstraction movement (the Museum of Modern Art in New York has more than a dozen of her works in its collection). Unfortunately, she has been overshadowed by the titanic presence of David Smith (the most important sculptor of the Abstract Expressionist period), whom she married when they were both young artists experimenting with abstraction in the 30s. Though she, too, devoted an amount of time making sculpture, she was the more talented painter of the two (they separated in the 40s, allegedly due to Smith's feelings of competition with Dehner). Her pen and ink and watercolor works are the most moving, expressive and original of her creations. When the Museum of Modern Art decided to buy one of her works for its permanent collection in 1953, it was one of these watercolors it chose. The Jewish Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art have held major retrospectives of Dehner's work. In 1993, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased one of Dehner's watercolors from this same period. Her work is also in the British Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Phillips Collection (Washington D. C.), Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of American Art, among others.
1980s Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Permanent Marker, Graphite, Mixed Media
1950s Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Pencil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Gouache, Screen
2010s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
2010s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
Robert SomertonAbstract Expressionist British Original Watercolor Painting Shapes Patterns , c. 2022
2010s Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Panel, Ink, Graphite
2010s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
2010s Abstract Geometric Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache
1990s Abstract Expressionist Dorothy Dehner Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor