Original Lithograph by listed artist Adolph Dehn - 1946

 Adolf Arthur Dehn (1895-1968) was a painter, watercolorist, sculptor, teacher and printmaker. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, he studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and later at the with Art Student's League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller. In the 1920s he traveled throughout Europe and lived in Vienna. In the 1930s he returned to America and worked in and out of New York City. He recorded much about American people and places while developing novel techniques in lithography. In Who Was Who in American Art, he was described as a good natured satirist and keen observer. His artworks can be found in most major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the MetropolitnMuseum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Library of Congress.

This lot is a large lithograph by the artist Adolph Dehn. This satirical print is titled in pencil "That Mad Night at Schultz's Farm" and depicts a surreal, almost nightmarish fantasy. The print is signed in pencil in the lower right margin. In the lower left hand margin, in pencil, it reads "30 proofs". The image measures 13" by 17" and the sheet measures 17" by 21". In the Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan Catalogue Raisonne on Dehn, this print had the catalogue number 431. This proof is in excellent condition with only a few faint ink smudges in the far left margin of the border.