Restoring the lost laurels of Adolf Dehn Editorial Staff
Vogue, Vanity Fair, and
The New Yorker. Nearly every major American museum was acquiring his work. As the cherry on top,
Life magazine celebrated Dehn’s art with a fivepage spread in its August 8th issue. But within a few years, as art critics rushed to embrace abstract expressionism, Dehn and many other artists of the social realism school were virtually forgotten. A new exhibition opening this month at the Fairfield University Art Museum in Connecticut aims to restore some luster to Dehn’s name.
Manhattan from Docks by Adolf Dehn, 1947. Estate of Adolf and Virginia Dehn.