We Speak English

1928

Adolf Arthur Dehn

Associated Names
Adolf Dehn

Artist, American, 1895 - 1968

This is a drawing of an urban street scene at night. Figures with exaggerated features occupy a dimly lit street corner under streetlamps. The setting is a city sidewalk, with multiple figures positioned across the composition, seemingly interacting with their environment or one another. The use of shading and contrast heightens the mysterious and somewhat surreal atmosphere, providing depth to the night scene.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Virginia Dehn

  • Dimensions

    image: 36.4 x 27.7 cm (14 5/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 54.7 x 35.8 cm (21 9/16 x 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.121.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lumsdaine/O'Sullivan 1987, no. 47

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent to Virginia Dehn, (artist's wife), Santa Fe; gift 2005 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1987

  • Lumsdaine, Jocylyn Pang, and Thomas O'Sullivan. The Prints of Adolf Dehn: A Catalog Raisonné. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987, p. 83, no 47.

Inscriptions

along lower edge in graphite: 30 prints / We Speak English / Adolf Dehn 1928; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 3.-19 / 47 (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q75424200

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