Dorothy Dehner

Dorothy Dehner’s Solo Exhibitions

Dorothy Dehner, Hawthorn Studio, Skidmore College, December 6-14, 1948.

Dorothy Dehner, Rose Fried Gallery, New York, May 5-31, 1952.

Dorothy Dehner, Etchings, Morris Gallery, New York, June 17-August 31, 1952.

Dorothy Dehner, Albany Institute of History and Art, August-September, 1952.

Dorothy Dehner, Etchings and Engravings, Wittenborn Gallery, New York, January 9-21, 1956.

Dorothy Dehner, Sculpture and Watercolors, Willard Gallery, New York, May 7-31, 1957.

Dehner Bronzes, Willard Gallery, New York, February 3-28, 1959.

Dorothy Dehner, A Selection of Bronzes, Columbia University (Avery Hall), New York, April 16-May 1, 1961.

Dorothy Dehner, Willard Gallery, New York, February 5-March 2, 1963.

Dorothy Dehner, Ten Years of Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York, March 11-April 11, 1965.

Dorothy Dehner, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, May 21-June 18, 1967.

Dorothy Dehner, Bernard M. Baruch Gallery, City University of New York, March 1970.

Dorothy Dehner, Willard Gallery, New York, April 21- May 23, 1970.

Dorothy Dehner, Sculpture and Drawings, Parsons/Dreyfus Gallery, New York, February 20-March 10, 1979.

Dorothy Dehner, A. Sachs, New York, March 31-April 24, 1983.

Dorothy Dehner, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, April 14-May 22, 1988.

Dorothy Dehner: Heroic Sculpture, Twining Fine Art, New York, 1990.

Dorothy Dehner, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., March 10-May 20, 1990.

Dorothy Dehner, Baruch College Art Gallery, City University of New York, March 15-April 16, 1991.

Dorothy Dehner, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, April 10-May 2, 1992.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 1, 1951- May 31,1953.

Watercolors, Willard Gallery, New York, May 3-28, 1995.

International Watercolor Exhibition, 18th Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1955.

Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, May 22-June 16, 1956.

Sculpture, Various Times and Various Cultures, Willard Gallery, New York, January 3-26, 1957 (3 bronzes included).

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, March 14-April 7, 1957.

Trends in Watercolor Today, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, April 9-May 26, 1957.

Directions in Sculpture, Riverside Museum, New York, December 1-22, 1957.

Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 1, 1959- December 31, 1959.

Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, March 29-April 26, 1959. (also 23rd Annual Exhibition, January 12-26, 1964.)

New Sculpture Group, Stable Gallery, New York, September 28-October 24, 1959.

Aspects de la Sculpture Americaine, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, October, 1960.

New Sculpture Group, Fifth Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, September 27-October 15, 1960.

Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Sculpture and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, December 7, 1960-January 22, 1961.

New Sculpture Group, Holland-Goldowsky, Chicago, March 10-April 6m 1961.

The Quest and the Quarry, Rome-New York Art Foundation, Inc., Rome, May-September, 1961.

New Sculpture Group, Sixth Exhibition, Stable Gallery, New York, September 19-October 14, 1961.

Twelve New York Sculptors, Riverside Museum, New York, April 8-29, 1962.

Small Sculpture: Robert Adams, Dorothy Dehner, Elizabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth, The Waddington Galleries, London, July 1962.

New Directions, Sculpture, American Federation of Arts, New York, October 1962-May 1963 (traveled throughout the United States).

Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc., New York, 22nd Annual Exhibition, January 13-27, 1963 (also 1964).

Sculptors Guild Exhibition, New York, October 22-November 21, 1963 (also 1964, 1967, 1972, 1973).

Triennale de Milano, Palazzo dell’Arte Parco Sempione Milano, 1964.

Landscape in Abstraction, The Sculptors Guild, New York, April 18-May 6, 1967.

National Association of Women Artists, Annual Exhibition, New York, May 14-31, 1970.

Artists of Lake George, 1776-1976, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, June 26- September 8, 1976.

Modern Masters: Women of the First Generation, Women Artists Series at Douglass College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, December 1-21, 1982.

Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, March 27-May 10, 1987.

The New Sculpture Group, A Look Back: 1957-1962, New York Studio School, March 8-April 8, 1988.

John Graham: Artist and Avatar, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., July 9-September 4, 1988 (also shown at Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase; Newport Harbor Art Museum, California, and University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, and Smart Gallery, University of Chicago). [Dehner’s painting included with works by Alexander Calder, Arshile Gorky, David Smith, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock].

Centennial Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, November-December, 1988.

Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988. American Women of the Twentieth Century, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, and Queensborough Community College, New York, 1989.

Paths to Discovery: The New York School, Baruch College Art Gallery, City University of New York, March-April, 1992.

Exhibitions of Dorothy Dehner’s Work, Post Mortem

Dorothy Dehner: Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, A Dehner retrospective, opens the renovated Prints and Drawings Gallery of the Cleveland Museum of Art on July 11, 1995. DD’s work is shown through November 5. Jane Glaubinger, Curator of Prints and Drawings, CMA, and Guest Curator Dr. Joan Marter, Rutgers, organize the exhibition.

Marter presents lecture “Arcadian Nightmares: Dorothy Dehner and David Smith at Bolton Landing” to the Print Club of Cleveland and to CMA Prints and Drawings Personnel during July in conjunction with the exhibition. Marter returns to CMA, October 11, to present the lecture to the general public.

Women and Abstract Expressionism, organized by Joan Marter, features Dorothy Dehner, Pearl Fine, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Betty Parsons and Ethel Schwabacher from May 25-June 15, 1997 at the Guild Hall, in East Hampton, New York.The exhibition is dedicated to all the “women who helped blaze the trail for abstract expressionism in the United States, but were overshadowed by the male contingent.” (Lipson, Karen. Newsday, Part Two, “Women’s Issues,” B4.)

Dorothy Dehner/The 1970s: An Homage to Her 1979 Parsons-Dreyfuss Exhibition, held May 6- June 10, 2005 by Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., features Dehner’s abstract watercolors, small wood sculptures and her large drawings for sculptures.

Dorothy Dehner/The Intimate Gesture: A Selection of Drawings and Prints from the 1950s, held by Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., February 24-March 31, 2011 features abstract mixed media works in pen and ink with watercolor, as well as some of the artist’s prints pulled at Hayter’s Atelier 17.

Dorothy Dehner at the Hyde, in conjunction with the Hyde Collection’s Fiftieth Anniversary celebration “Five Decades of Collecting 1963-2013,” is exhibited January 20-April 14, 2013. Erin Coe, interim chief curator, and Jayne Stokes, associate curator, organize and design both exhibitions.