The Letter
Dorothy Dehner
1953
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engraving
Dimensions
image: 126 x 177 mm sheet: 190 x 256 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.1458
About the Artist
Dorothy Dehner
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an American sculptor and printmaker whose distinctive artistic voice emerged fully only in midlife, following decades of work that had been overshadowed by her marriage to the prominent sculptor David Smith. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dehner studied at the Art Students League in New York, where she met Smith, and the two became central figures in the circle of American...