Adolf Dehn

Big Rock

Adolf Dehn's original lithograph, Big Rock is one of his largest works in this medium and also one of his scarcest. It exists in a small edition of twenty-five signed impressions. This original lithograph is printed upon laid paper and with full deckled margins, first and only state as published in 1961. It is signed, dated, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. The Butler Museum of American Art lists an impression of Big Rock in its permanent collection.

Big Rock

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Adolf Dehn (Waterville, Minnesota, 1895 - New York, 1968)
#	Image	Title & Engraver	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Big Rock by Adolf Dehn	Original Lithograph	1961	Signed, dated, titled and numbered by Adolf Dehn in pencil. First and Only state as published in the limited edition of 25 impressions.	Sold
02.-		Snow Mountain by Adolf Dehn	Original Lithograph	1963	Signed by Adolf Dehn in pencil. First and Only State as published by the Associated American Artists of New York in the signed, limited edition of 250 impressions.
03.-		Threshing Near Kilkenny by Adolf Dehn	Original Lithograph	1939	Signed in pencil by Adolf Dehn. First and Only State limited edition of 250 impressions.

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Title:	Big Rock
Artist:	Dehn, Adolf (Waterville, Minnesota, 1895 - New York, 1968)
Date:	1961
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Note:	Adolf Dehn: One of America's leading lithographers of the twentieth century, Adolf Dehn first studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute. His education was thwarted for several years during the First World War when he became a conscientious objector. One year after the war ended (1919) Dehn received a scholarship to resume his studies at the Art Students League, New York. There he met the influential artist, Boardman Robinson (1876-1952), who helped to publish Dehn's drawings for the leftist newspaper, The Masses. Robinson also introduced the young artist to the master printer, George Miller, and Dehn created his first lithographs under his direction in 1920.
	In 1921 Adolf Dehn set off for Europe in order, he stated, "to starve more elegantly." He remained there until 1929, living and working in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. During this period he supported himself almost entirely with his lithographic art, many of which were very satirical in nature. Dehn returned to New York in 1930 and set up his studio there. During the decade of the Great Depression he became famous both for his satirical and landscape lithographs. Beginning in 1941 Adolf Dehn taught lithographic and printmaking techniques at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He was elected a full Academician of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1961, the year he created Big Rock. Today the lithographs of Adolf Dehn are included in many of the world's leading institutions, including the British Museum, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
	During his career, one of Dehn's biggest supporters was the famous American art scholar, Carl Zigrosser. He wrote, "Dehn is the Debussy of the lithograph. He has no one approach. He works with pen or crayon, with point or flat edge, with wash and splatter and rubbed tones, he rubs and picks and scratches and scrapes ... whatever is at hand. He caresses or attacks the stone according to his mood." *
	Zigrosser's words clearly apply to Big Rock, where a myriad of textures suggest and construct the imagery. So skillful are his "rubs and picks and scratches and scrapes" that this rock becomes a distinct presence. Big Rock is one of Dehn's largest lithographs and also one of his scarcest. It exists in a small edition of twenty-five signed impressions.
Raisonne:	J. Lumsdaine and T. O'Sullivan, The Prints of Adolf Dehn, A Catalogue Raisonne, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1987.
	Catalogue Raisonne #538, first and only state as published in the limited, signed edition of 25 in 1961.
Reference:	* Clinton Adams, American Lithographers, 1900-1960, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1983, pp. 71 & 72.
Edition:	Limited Edition of twenty-five impressions, Numbered 4/25
Size:	14 X 18 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon laid paper bearing the "BFK Rives" watermark and with full deckled margins as published in 1961. Signed, dated, titled and numbered, '4/25', by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Big Rock represents both a scarce and important example of the famous lithographic art of Adolf Dehn.
	The Butler Museum of American Art lists an impression of Big Rock in its permanent collection. It was gifted to this institution by Adolf Dehn in 1962.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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