Central Park
Adolf Dehn (1895-1968)

Adolf Dehn was a tremendously prolific artist also known for excellent work in lithography. He contributed to a number of important movements in American art, including Regionalism, Social Realism, and caricature. Dehn earned a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York, spent the post-WWI years in Paris and Vienna, and moved back to New York City in the 1930s. He became successful painting vivid scenes of Harlem nightclubs, burlesque theaters, Central Park and high society, and he published work in the New Yorker and Vogue. Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art owns 28 pieces by Dehn, and sells many popular prints, notecards, and t-shirts of his work.

Adolf Dehn’s Central Park was painted in 1957 in tempera on masonite and measures 24 ½ by 55 inches.