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Artist/Maker
Adolf Arthur Dehn
(American, 1895 - 1968)
Date1942
MediumWatercolor and gouache on paper
DimensionsComposition: 17 × 23 1/2 in. (43.2 × 59.7 cm)
Frame: 27 × 33 × 1 in. (68.6 × 83.8 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of James Taylor Dunn, Class of 1936
Object number1997.9.3
Not on view
Collections
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Spring at Johnston Hasbrouk’s Farm
Exhibition History
1955
Minneapolis (University Gallery of the University of Minnesota);
1944
New York, NY (Museum of Modern Art). "Four American Watercolorists: Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Dehn," September 1943 - June 1944; travling exhibition.
Minneapolis (University Gallery of the University of Minnesota);
1944
New York, NY (Museum of Modern Art). "Four American Watercolorists: Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Dehn," September 1943 - June 1944; travling exhibition.
Provenance
1997: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of James Taylor Dunn;
January 3, 1944 - 1997: James Taylor Dunn, by purchase via his brother Montfort Dunn from the Museum of Modern Art.
January 3, 1944 - 1997: James Taylor Dunn, by purchase via his brother Montfort Dunn from the Museum of Modern Art.
Markings
Marks: labels from the Museum of Modern Art and the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota on the verso.
Signature
Signed and dated "Adolf Dehn '42" in white paint at lower right.
Inscribed
"Spring at Johnston Hasbrouck's Farm" on backing at upper left in pencil; "SPRING AT JOHNSTON HASBROUCK FARM." ink on backing at upper left in black; "23765 [underlined] / 3" on backing at center right [sideways] in charcoal/black crayon; "James Taylor Dunn '36 / Marie-C. Dunn-Bach / aka MARIA DUNN-BACH; [continued to the right - column 2]: in their home / from Olean, N.Y. / Cooperstown, N.Y. / St. PAUL, MINN / SAN ANTONIO - TEXAS / purch. 1943; [all }, then to the right]: 1945 / to 1995" on backing at upper right in ink.
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