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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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Facts about Dorothy (Mann) Dehner

   Publications  Book References:  32
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Dorothy (Mann) Dehner
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 1999 Editors, ARTNews Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
Art Times Dorothy Dehner at Katonah Museum July 1993 Steiner, Raymond J No
32 Book References for Dorothy (Mann) Dehner
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts 240 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Record of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996
(Exhibition catalog)
3724 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc
(Exhibition catalog)
108 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
210 No
1959 Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies 718 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
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