Sea and Rocks
Adolf Arthur Dehn
American Art
Although best known as a lithographer of caricatured figure subjects, Adolf Dehn also worked with other media and subjects, including landscape watercolors. Dehn’s primary work in a black-and-white print medium may have led him to emphasize strong contrasts of light and dark, enhanced here by areas of drawing with a soft pencil or chalk. Although his talent for expressive form is also visible, this work is most impressive for Dehn’s dynamic control of the dark washes that broadly but forcefully define the jutting rock cliffs.
MEDIUM
Watercolor and black media (chalk, soft pencil, or conté) on cream, medium thick, medium textured wove paper (BFK Rives)
DATES
1938
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 3/8 in. (38.4 x 56.8 cm)
Frame: 23 15/16 x 29 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (60.8 x 75.9 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Countermark along lower right edge, to the right of artist's signature: "BFK"
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Adolf Dehn '38"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
39.103
CREDIT LINE
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Adolf Arthur Dehn (American, 1895–1968). Sea and Rocks, 1938. Watercolor and black media (chalk, soft pencil, or conté) on cream, medium thick, medium textured wove paper (BFK Rives), Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 3/8 in. (38.4 x 56.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 39.103. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 39.103_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 39.103_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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