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Dorothy (Mann) Dehner

Dorothy (Mann) Dehner (1901 - 1994) was active/lived in New York, Ohio.  Dorothy Dehner is known for Abstract sculpture, naive style painting, printmaking, drawing, collage.

Painter, sculptor, art writer, and poet, Dorothy Dehner explored abstraction*, cubism*, realism* and surrealism* during her artistic journey.  Early in her career she was known for painting and for large-cast metal sculptures, but in the 1950s and 1960s, turned increasingly to wood cut into hard-edge geometric shapes.  From 1950, she lived primarily in New York City. 

Dorothy Dehner was born in 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as a teenager in 1916, moved to Pasadena, California when her parents died.  Her artistic interests were initially in acting.  She majored in drama at UCLA for the school year of 1922-1923, then moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

After travel to Europe in France, Italy and Switzerland in 1925, where she saw Cubist* and Fauve* paintings as well as the great art of the ages, Dehner entered the Art Students League* to study sculpture, but switched to painting because she felt the form   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6835 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Dorothy (Mann) Dehner


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Miniature Art
  • Miniature, Small Scale Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
Art Teacher
  • Boardman Robinson
  • Jan Matulka
  • Kenneth Hayes Miller
  • Kimon Nicolaides
  • Stanley William Hayter
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
  • Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Married to an Artist
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Audubon Society of Artists
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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