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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.56
People
Dorothy Dehner, American (Cleveland, Ohio 1901 - 1994 New York)
Title
Landscape for Cynics
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1945
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185275

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper, framing corners in graphite
Dimensions
29.2 x 39.3 cm (11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Black ink, l.r.: Dehner '45
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Landscape for Cynics
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 87.441 [written upside down]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts
Copyright
© Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.56
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joan Marter, Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art, exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY, 1993), p. 8; pl. 3
  • Jane Glaubinger, Dorothy Dehner: Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1995), cat. no. 4
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 32-33, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 33

Exhibition History

  • Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, 06/13/1993 - 09/05/1993; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, 10/16/1993 - 11/28/1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 12/18/1993 - 03/07/1994
  • Dorothy Dehner: Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 07/11/1995 - 11/05/1995

Verification Level

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