1901-1994
1901 Dec. 23
Dorothy Dehner born to Edward P. and Louise (Lulu) Uphof Dehner.
1901-1903
Dehner, Edward P listed as mngr Dehner’s Pharmacy Co r. The Courtland (apartment house) in Cleveland City Directory.
1901-1915
Dehner Family establishes and maintains affiliation with St. Stephen R.C. Church, German-American Community, West Side, Cleveland.
1903-1907
Dehner, Edward P, listed as mngr Dehners Pharmacy Co r The Courtland Dehner’s Pharmacy Co. E. P. Dehner r mng 5403 (old 737) Detroit av NW and W 65th (Gordon av) cor Fir av NW,
1907-1915
Dorothy and older sister Louise attend Cleveland Public Schools rather than St. Stephen Parochial Schools. Detroit St. School within walking distance of Dehner Apartments.
1910 Census
Edward P. Dehner, 49, listed as Head of Household; Wife, Lulu A. [Agnes], 35; Daughter, Louise E.,13; Daughter, Dorothy, 8. (Dehner’s occupation is listed as Retail Merchant, Drugs,
1911-1912
Dehner, Edw P listed as Retail Merchant, Drugs, 5712 Detroit av NW r 1408 W 65th NW (Courtland St. became W 54th), Cleveland City Directory.
1912 Feb. 10
Edward P. Dehner dies in Cleveland at age 52 of lobar pneumonia. b. Sept. 22, 1860. Father listed as Daniel Dehner b. in Germany and Mother as Rosinna Kuhny b. in U.S. Burial in
1912-1913
Dehner, Lulu A., listed as wid E P r 1408 W 65 NW The (apartments) 1408-1412 W 65th NW.
1912-1914
Dehner’s Pharmacy Co 5712 Detroit av NW, Cleveland City Directory.
1913-1914
Dehner’s
Dehner, Lulu A wid. E P r 1408 65th NW The (apartments) 1408-141 W 65th, NW Dehner’s Pharmacy Co. 5712 Detroit av NW Cleveland City Directory.
1915
Dehner’s Lulu Dehner, Louise, Dorothy and Aunt Flo leave for California on the second passenger liner through the Panama Canal, disembarking in San Diego in June for the
1916-1920
Dehner’s DD attends Pasadena High School, joins the Drama Club, and begins acting under Director Gilmore Brown (who later founded the Pasadena Playhouse) her senior year. DD’s
1917, Oct. 28
Lula A. Dehner dies in Pasadena, California, her cremated remains enniched in Moravia, Mausoleum.
1918 (No d. cert.)
Louisa Dehner dies in Pasadena, her remains enniched in Monravia near Lulu’s.
1918-1919
DD and Aunt Flo move to smaller house at 154 Marion St., Pasadena. Dehner takes private interpretive dance lessons with Ed Hess, trained at Denishawn School, Los Angeles.
1919-1921
DD and Flo move to apartment house at 1045 E. Colorado St., Pasadena. DD continues private interpretive dance lessons with Violet Romer, who performed in London and New York,
1921-1922
DD and Flo move to bungalow at 975 Chester St., near freeway to Los Angeles. DD enrolls in art and literature classes at U.C.L.A. in 1921, but continues acting under Gilmore Brown
1923
DD leaves Calif. in January after last scheduled play to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York. She returns to Pasadena for summer, takes art classes at P.H.S.,
1924
DD quits AADA, makes rounds of producers’ offices and attends casting calls, acting as an ingénue in several off-Broadway plays in Walter Hartwig’s Little Theater Productions.
1925, Jan.-Oct.
DD travels through Italy, Switzerland, France; visits London as well, for nine months (January through October). Sees Mary Wigman dance; hears Stravinsky concert; sees L’Exposition
1926
DD continues study under Nicolaides until June, visits Aunt Flo in Pasadena, summer of 1926, takes art courses at Pasadena High School in summer. In September, she returns from
1926 cont.
1927
DD continues studying with Miller and Nicolaides until summer when DD visits Aunt Flo (now, her surrogate mother) in Pasadena. She and DS exchange affectionate post cards and letters;
1928
DD, unhappy with Miller’s teaching techniques, takes a break from the ASL, paints at home. DD and DS explore Greenwich Village, attend concerts and plays, attend lectures and critiques
1929
DD and DS meet John and Elinor Graham that winter through Weber and Tomas Furlong at their Washington Square North studio apartment.
Graham, proselytizing for the Parisian
1930
DD and DS continue taking private studio lessons with Matulka during the winter and spring. In the summer they return to Bolton, where they befriend the Matulkas, vacationing in nearby
1931
DD and DS study with Matulka throughout the spring, and return to Bolton that summer. Elinor Graham purchases farm in Bolton, so that she and JG can be near Lake George, DD and DS.
1932
DD and DS spend nine months in Virgin Islands. DD and DS rent house on St. Thomas, where they paint, photograph village scenes, swim, sunbathe and beachcomb. Both experiment
1933
DD and DS remain on farm, awaiting Cleveland property rental check, as long as possible. In early winter, they return to 57 Poplar St., Brooklyn, living near Edgar and Lucille Corcos Levy
1934
February 11, DD and DS attend John Reed Club meeting with Graham, hear heated discussion over politicization of art after Diego Rivera’s Communist-inspired mural at Rockefeller
DS hired by John Graham to catalog and mount collection of African art he has amassed for connoisseur Frank Crowninshield (editor of literary magazine Vanity Fair and, later, Vogue,
1935
John Graham meets DD and DS at Paris’s Gare St. Lazare, conducts them through modern art as well as African and oceanic art galleries. They see most-recent Picassos (probably
In November DD and DS travel to Greece via Marseilles and Malta. They visit Acropolis and DS rents Athens studio for sculpture while DD draws small-scale genre scenes and landscapes.
DS works as Paint Technician on Mural Projects in NYC until Spring 1935. DD and DS host paint expert Maximillian Toff at the farm. DD executes mixed media The Yard Behind Brooklyn
1936
DD and DS return to Bolton, then visit DS’s parents briefly in Paulding, Ohio. Aunt Flo visits the farm, where DS makes two attempts on her life by throwing rocks at her head, one of which
DD and DS visit Delphi, Temple of Poseidon, Peloponnesus (Sparta to Kalamata), Aegina, Crete (Knossos).In late April DD and DS leave Greece for Paris, London and Soviet
1937
That spring DD and DS carry his small sculptures on NYC subway, trek to modern art galleries in hopes of approval, but experience total rejection. They finally meet Marian Willard,
In January-March DD visits Aunt Flo in Pasadena, finds it reactionary, paints Arroyo Seco, visits Palm Springs, checks out avant-garde L.A. art scene.
DD diagnosed with serious
1938
DS has first one-man show at Willard Gallery in January, has no sales. DD paints Cubist-inspired work at home. They return to Bolton, late spring-fall. DD campaigns for Communist Party to
1939
DS assigned to Sculpture Division, W.P.A., joins Sculpture Guild, designs and fabricates andirons and fireplace tools for MoMA penthouse.
DS’s sculpture chosen as example of American
1940
In January DS has one-man Abstract Sculpture Show at Willard’s East River Gallery and concurrent show of his Medals for Dishonoror Medals
at the Newman-Willard Gallery.
1940-1941
DD and DS return to self-sufficient living on farm for most of the following two years. DS continues welding and improving Terminal Iron Works, his Bolton studio, while DD does farm chores
1942
DS begins welding that spring in Schenectady for American Locomotive Co. (ALCO), prime tank producer for war effort. DD sends three paintings to Butler Art Institute in Youngstown,
DS shows sculpture and jewelry at Skidmore College in January, exhibits at the Whitney Annual in NYC (Jan. 15-Feb. 19, 1942) and enrolls in welding classes at General Electric Corp. in
1943
DS shows cast aluminum sculpture at Whitney, one of his Medals for Dishonor and Ad Mare at Met for Artists for Victory show and Jewelry by David Smith at the Willard, in
1944
DS exhibits at Whitney Annual. ALCO schedules plant layoff, March 1-June. From May-August DD visits Aunt Flo in Pasadena. Flo deeds final third of Lulu’s estate to DD. With impending
1945
DD hosts Jane and Jamie Dodge (mother and son) in February at the farm, while Jerry Dodge and DS go to NYC to search for art for Glens Falls’ Hyde Museum. DD paints Jamie’s Visit
1946
DD begins dark, self-expressive drawings, turning away from narrative painting. In fall DD begins experiments on Japanese handmade paper of watercolor washes overlaid with ink
DS exhibits during January in relocated Whitney, merged for this exhibition with the Metropolitan. DD returns briefly to Bolton in April with DS; then, both return to NYC, where they live in the
1947
DD draws The Aviary that spring and, haunted by the beginning of the Atomic Age and revelations of the Holocaust, begins a series of apocalyptic drawings and paintings, Suite Moderne:
DD teaches Bolton children and young adults in summer art program, receives local attention through feature article in Warrensburg News. DD and DS begin remodeling farmhouse.
DD and DS attend January opening at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, where DS has been asked to lecture. DS exhibits at Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College in February and
1948
DS leaves for teaching job at Sarah Lawrence College on September 30. DS comes home on weekends, but is increasingly critical, cruel and abusive of DD.
DD gives gallery talk on her work at Studio Arts Club, Skidmore College, in November; has solo show at Hathorn Studio, Skidmore College, December 6-14, 1948. Also participates in
DD exhibits in group exhibition at Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Gallery, February 1-29, and continues work on Dances of Death Series. DD attends convention of Progressive Congress of
1949 Fall, Winter
DD and DS continue progress during the summer on house, perched precariously on hill. DD works with musician Hugh Allen Wilson on proposed Bolton Music Festival, a flop because
DS returns to Sarah Lawrence.DD in Group Exhibition at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; show travels to Pasadena Art Institute and San Francisco Museum of Art.
DD and DS spend Christmas Holidays with the Levys, extending their stay to several days in NYC.
DS leaves for Sarah Lawrence College. Interior of unfinished house, in which DD stays alone through a blizzard, is dirty, cold and ugly. When she visits DS at Sarah Lawrence, she meets
1950
DD and DS spend two weeks in NYC for Whitney and Willard shows during April and May. Howard DeVree, critic from the New York Times, gives DD her first NY positive review,
The back of the partially constructed house falls off its foundation, dividing the building in two—a great calamity. DS does not get the Prix de Rome. DD gets distress call from Aunt Flo,
DD returns to Bolton in June after arranging for Flo’s remains and executing her will. DS expresses a sense of abandonment but no sympathy. DD returns to Pasadena to appear in Probate
DD exhibits work in an annual Group Exhibition at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica. DS returns to Sarah Lawrence in the fall, meets student Jean Freas and they fall in
DD and DS spend Thanksgiving Day with the George Reises. After return to farmhouse, DS attacks DD so violently she thinks he will kill her. Wearing only her fur coat and boots, she
DS returns to Sarah Lawrence in January. DD goes to visit Flo in Pasadena for several weeks. DD returns to comparative calm, and both artists work well. DD announces intention to
1950 cont.
DD calls Skidmore College art instructors Maryetta and Robert Davidson, the day after Thanksgiving, to rescue her and help her remove essential belongings. She moves to Saratoga
1951
DD confers in mid-January with the Skidmore College Registrar for Credit Evaluation and files a 1951-52 Degree Plan, attempting an ambitious schedule to culminate in a BS degree in
During the spring term, DD analyzes power structure of NYC art scene (major critics and galleries); states views on Surrealism, Ab-Exers, and her personal art for Skidmore course. While DS
DD spends two weeks at Provincetown during summer vacation, working in Ad Rheinhardt’s studio, then briefly visits Fitches in New City, and finally, rents cottage near Levys at Fire Island.
While in NYC area, DD visits Dr. Bernard Glueck who affirms her decision to leave Smith. She attends Whitney Annual’s opening party and has drawings and watercolors framed at Max
1952
DD participates in Group Exhibition at Rose Fried Gallery, NYC, receiving strong critical approval. By July she is working at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 printmaking studio and
Negotiations with DS over property settlement begin, then are postponed. Divorce finalized. In May DD graduates from Skidmore College with a BS degree in Applied Art, then moves to
1953
During the summer DD develops the art program at the Indian Hill Music Workshop in the Berkshires, a camp for teenagers interested in the arts, owned and operated by Mordacai and
DD has another Solo Exhibition at Skidmore College, then exhibits work in Group Exhibitions of the National Watercolor Society held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Painting
1954
DD contracts with the Lending Service of the Museum of Modern Art, an entity which lends work by a number of prestigious artists to private art patrons for rental fee, split by MoMA and the
DD has solo print exhibitions at the Morris Gallery in NYC, at the Albany institute of History and Art and at the University of Virginia Museum. Group Exhibitions at the Whitney Annual
1955
DD shows watercolors at Willard Gallery with Gina Knee and Sibley Smith and begins long relationship (1955-1976) with Marian Willard as her dealer. Her work appears in other Group
Dorothy Dehner Smith, 53, marries Ferdinand Mann, 55, in New City (Clarkstown), Rockland County, New York. September 9. DD and FM spend summers at Finney Farm, Mann’s
1956
DD has Solo Exhibitions at Wittenborn’s Print Gallery and the Chicago Art Institute. DD also shows in Group Exhibitions at the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at
1957
DD acquires a professional studio at 41 Union Square and has Solo Exhibition Various Times and Various Cultures at the Willard Gallery, January 3-26, in which she includes three
1958
DD exhibits work in Group Exhibitions including those at the Museum of Modern Art; in the Forty by Fourteen at the Riverside Museum in NYC; with the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Society;
DS, whose marriage to Jean Freas Smith is dissolving, invites DD to dinner at the farm, promising her that she can collect her work left there, work that he says he has kept clean and in good
1959
DD also shows work in Group Exhibitions: at the Museum of Modern Art, in Recent Sculpture, U.S.A.; at the Sculptors Guild’s Lever House Annual; with the Stable Gallery’s New Sculpture
Cora Uphof (anglicized name Upton), DD’s older aunt, dies in Calif., 122 No. Orange Blvd., L. A. County; occupation listed as Linguist; Causes of Death: Acute pulmonary edema, acute
DD opens Solo Exhibition, May 16, at the Willard Gallery, a show which travels to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs; to the Gres Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and to the
1960
DD’s Group Exhibitions in the U.S. include those with the New Sculpture Group: Fifth Exhibition at the Stable Gallery (September 28-October 24); at the Whitney Annual; with the Sculptors
DD has a Solo Exhibition at the Willard Gallery. MoMA acquires From Japan. DD’s work is also included in the Ralph Colin Collection, exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery. Internationally,
1961
Nationally, Dehner exhibits with the New Sculpture Group at the Holland-Goldowsky Gallery in Chicago, March 10-April 6; as well as in a group exhibition The Quest and the Quarry in
While on vacation in Florida, DD experiences a coronary thrombosis, and upon her return to New York, Dehner has her first of several open-heart surgeries.
DD has a One-Woman Exhibition at Columbia University; also, she shows in the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture and Drawing, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New
1962
Internationally, she exhibits in Small Sculptures: Robert Adams, Dorothy Dehner, Elizabeth Fink, Barbara Hepworth, The Waddington Galleries, London, during July.
DD participates in a Two-Artist Exhibition with Jane Teller at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and is also included in the Guggenheim Museum of Art Exhibition of the Hirshhorn
1963
DD exhibits in Artists for CORE (a Group Exhibition to benefit the Congress for Racial Equality) at the Martha Jackson Gallery, 32 East 69 Street, New York, May 23-29.
DD has Solo Exhibition of monotypes at the Willard Gallery. Also, Dehner exhibits in New Directions, Sculpture, American Federation of Arts, New York, October (a show which
1964
DD participates in Sculptors Guild Exhibition, 23rd Annual, New York, also with the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc., 23rd Annual Exhibition. She also participates in the Third
DD begins collaboration with Founder Joel Meisner, who has formulated self-venting plaster, which facilitates a less labor intensive, and therefore less expensive, bronze casting
1965
DD’s Group Exhibitions include those with the Sculptors Guild in the Lever House Annual; at the Hathorne Gallery, Skidmore College; the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (silver and
David Smith dies, May 23, of a fractured skull and lacerations, enroute to the Albany Medical Center, after running his truck into a tree on his way home from Bennington, Vermont.
DD honored with Solo Ten-year Sculpture Retrospective at the Jewish Museum, New York, March 11- April 11. Positive reviews validate Dehner’s sustained effort.
1966
DD’s solo exhibition, Dorothy Dehner: Recent Bronzes, held in Willard Gallery, NYC, November 15-December 10.
1967
DD shows several gold pendants of her own design, in addition to several pieces of silver jewelry by DS given to her, in Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors under the
1968
DD participates in Group Exhibitions at the following galleries and institutions: Willard Gallery, NYC; Lever House with the Sculptor’s Guild, NYC; New York Bank for Savings with the Sculptor’s
DD honored by the Hyde Museum and Collection in Glens Falls, New York; Curator James Kettlewell acquires her bronze Low Landscape, Sideways for the museum; she also
DD’s and DS’s collection within the exhibition Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, under the auspices of MoMA, continues to travel to the following venues: Roanoke
1969
DD participates internationally in Rental Gallery Exhibitions co-sponsored by MoMA and the U.S. State Department, Engravings, Prints and Plates, at the Birla Academy of Art,
1970-71 DD exhibits in Solo Exhibitions at the Baruch College Art Gallery, City University of New York, March; at the Willard Gallery, April 21-May 23; and at the J. Walter Thompson,
DD exhibits in stateside Group Exhibitions held at the following venues: Skidmore College, National Arts Club (continuation of Skidmore Exhibition), Sculptors Guild Exhibition of Bronzes;
DD assesses next career move and applies to Tamarind Lithography Workshop, newly relocated in Albuquerque, and accepts November 16, 1970-January 8, 1971 as attendance dates.
DD shows sculpture in Group Exhibitions: Willard Gallery; Cosmopolitan Club; Lever House; Sculptors Guild Headquarters, all in NYC; subsequently, First National Bank, Chicago, Illinois.
1971
DD reapplies to Yaddo Institute in Saratoga Springs, attends July 21-August 20. Works on drawings, using Hudson River Valley and Upstate New York landscape for subject matter.
DD starts working on wood sculpture, using constructivist technique.
DD completes scholarly essay Medals for Dishonor: The Fifteen Medallions of David Smith and concentrates on writing poetry and familiar essays.
DD attends Tamarind Lithography Workshop until January 8, completing 20 lithographs, entitled the Lunar Series. Upon return to New York, DD approaches Willard for show of
1972
DD is feted as one of Skidmore College’s Fifty Distinguished Graduates.
1973
DD’s best friend Lucille Corcos Levy dies. DD suffers from heart failure.
1974
DD has major heart surgery, June 7, and undergoes painful recovery. DD’s second husband Ferdinand Mann dies, November 26, of Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Artery Disease
DD lends her papers and photograph album to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, for Microfilming. Upon completion of microfilming, Dehner retains the album
DD collaborates with Skidmore student Judith McCandless for an Independent Study on Dehner’s life and work, using resources from the Whitney Museum. McCandless becomes a
DD negotiates with Herbert George, Editor of Tracks: a Journal of Artists’ Writings, in order for him to read her work at the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. Eventually,
1975
DD suffers grievously over the loss of her beloved Ferdie and Lucille, heals slowly from painful heart surgery, and continues to experience failing eyesight because of cataracts.
1976
DD shows abstract mixed media works (watercolor, pen and ink) in a Group Exhibition celebrating the Bicentennial at Hyde Museum, Glens Falls, NY, as one of over 30 artists who
1977
DD also meets younger artist Sandra Lerner, who accompanies DD to her openings and to other art exhibitions and galas, becoming another trusted friend and confidante.
Ferdie Mann’s business Modern Classics goes bankrupt; DD has grave financial problems. DD publishes poetry in Tracks: A Journal of Artists’ Writings.
DD meets and grants interviews to Dr. Joan Marter, initially interested in the work of David Smith and in the work of artist couples such as Dehner and Smith. Marter, whose doctorate
1978
DD engages Anita A. Kahn, a NYC art consultant, as her agent; but the artist also sells work out of her studio.
1979
DD has Solo Exhibition of Drawings and Wood Sculpture at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery (February 20-March 10). Anita Kahn continues as DD’s agent, but DD begins negotiations
1980
DD continues working in wood–usually using found pieces brought to her by a young friend–assembled by constructivist methods.
1981
DD undergoes cataract surgery on one eye “only, fearing that if she had both surgeries at once, she might become totally blind.”
Twining Gallery’s Richard Egan suggests that Dehner work on a larger scale, using fabricator Jim Schmidt to weld together shapes based upon her Lunar Series of Prints done
1982
DD receives Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Skidmore College, and is accompanied by Dr. Joan Marter to the ceremonial event.
1983
DD honored for outstanding achievement at the Fifth Annual Women’s Caucus for Art. DD has Solo Exhibition at A. Sachs Gallery (March 31-April 24), NYC. Jed Tully interviews
1984
DD featured in dual retrospective Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment, organized by Dr. Joan Marter with Essays by Marter and Judith
1985
DD works on concepts for monumental steel sculptures fabricated from Corten steel.
1986
DD, while crossing the street on the way to her studio, is hit by a car. In the hospital, she receives four times the dosage of a prescribed drug for her weight; she hemorrhages
1987
Susan Teller Gallery mounts Dorothy Dehner: A Retrospective of Prints, April 7-May 2, the first full retrospective of the artist’s printmaking, including engravings made in the 1950s
DD featured in Solo Exhibition at Associated American Artists, NYC. She accepts Award of Distinction, National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women, University of
1988
DD’s sculpture is included in exhibition Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum of American Art.
DD has Solo Exhibitions featuring her large welded pieces at Twining Fine Art, New York, and at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Reviews are positive. Richard
1989
DD sends photographic reproductions of her Life on the Farm paintings, together with descriptions of the events surrounding these narrative scenes, to the Bolton Historical Museum in
1990
DD featured in solo exhibitions at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., March 10-May 20), and at Twining Fine Art.
1991
Twining Gallery hosts 90th Birthday Celebration and Retrospective in honor of Dehner, photographed with 12-foot high fabricated steel sculpture as signature piece.
DD has Solo Exhibition Dorothy Dehner: A Retrospective of Sculpture, Drawings and Paintings at Baruch College Art Gallery, University of New York, March 15 to April 16, catalog
1992
DD has solo exhibition at the Perimeter Gallery, Chicago. Her sculpture and drawings are shown at the Chicago Art Fair.DD designs four maquettes, based upon drawings she did in the
1993
Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art opens at Katonah Museum of Art and travels to The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls and to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Dr. Joan
1994
DD enters into a contract with Martha Lockhart (Stephens-Nodine) in June to write the artist’s biography. MLN goes to Little Rock to see group exhibition which includes Dehner’s work.
DD and MLN complete nine ninety-minute audiotape interviews about Dehner’s life, which include detailed recollections of her relationship with David Smith, by August.
DD dies from fall down the back stairs of her NYC apartment on September 22, 1994. Dehner’s body found the next morning by custodian. Memorial Service held at Art Students League
DD’s Sixty Years of Art Retrospective installed at the Corcoran where Dr. David Corcos Levy is Director. National Public Radio’s Reporter-at-Large Susan Stanberg interviews Dehner
1995
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,
DD’s Retrospective Dorothy Dehner: Drawings, Prints, Sculpture opens the renovated Prints and Drawings Gallery of the Cleveland Museum of Art on July 11, DD’s work shown
1997
Joan Marter organizes Women and Abstract Expressionism, May 25-June 15, at the Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, New York. Exhibition features Dorothy Dehner, Pearl
2005
Dorothy Dehner/The 1970s: An Homage to Her 1979 Parsons-Dreyfuss Exhibition, held May 6-June 10, by Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., featured Dehner’s abstract watercolors, small wood
2011
Dorothy Dehner/The Intimate Gesture: A Selection of Drawings and Prints from the 1950s, held by Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., February 24-March 31, featured abstract mixed media works
2013
Dorothy Dehner at the Hyde, in conjunction with the Hyde Collection’s Fiftieth Anniversary celebration: Five Decades of Collecting 1963-2013, January 20-April 14, 2013, both