Walter Leonard Dehner
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Walter Leonard Dehner (1898–1975) was an American painter, lithographer, photographer, and teacher. Among many other artistic and professional endeavors, he was Director of Art at the University of Puerto Rico from 1928 to 1948 and in 1946 was artist in residence at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.[1]
Biography[edit]
Dehner was born in Buffalo, N.Y.; his father was German and his mother was of Canadian descent. Dehner’s family moved to East Aurora, N.Y., about 10 miles southeast of Buffalo, when he was nine years old.
Education[edit]
Dehner’s studies were extensive. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and his master's degree from Ohio State University. He also studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under the social realist painters George Bellows and Eugene Speicher and under Charles Rosen, an impressionist who later adopted a cubist-realist style. Dehner further broadened his artistic horizons at the University of Michigan; while studying at Harvard, he worked in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he studied with Hugh Brekenridge, Francis Speight, and Daniel Garber.[2][3][4]
Professional life[edit]
During his time in Puerto Rico, Dehner promoted the arts and culture of the island. His name was known there before his arrival; in 2018, the Museum of History, Anthropology, and Art Puerto Rico had received five Dehner pieces as a gift from Eduardo De Jesus Rodriguez, a Cuban American plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
Dehner’s works have been widely exhibited, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Salons of America; the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; the Wichita (Kan.) Museum of Art; the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; the National Academy of Design (New York); the Witte Memorial Museum (San Antonio, Tex.); the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and in solo exhibitions at several galleries in New York City.
Commercial success[edit]
Dehner was also a commercially successful artist. According to The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago 1888–1950,[5] for example, the following watercolors were sold in the 1940s:
- “Rich Port” ($600)
- “Puerto Rico, Sunday Morning” ($300)
- “Crooked Street” ($100)
- “Company Street, St. Croix” ($100)
- “The Curtain Rises on Taxco” ($100)
- “The Room Next to Mine” ($250)
- “Rain Across the Bay ($100)
(The listed prices are contemporaneous; according to an inflation calculator, $100 in 1943 is equivalent to about $1,700 in 2022.)
References[edit]
- ↑ Falk, Peter Hastings (1999). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975. Falk Art Reference; Revised, Enlarged edition. Search this book on
- ↑ "Artist Biography & Facts, Walter (Walt) Leonard Dehner". AskART.com. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Walter Leonard Dehner (1898–?) – Biography, life, background and work by Artprice". Artprice.com. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ↑ "A preface to Dehner = Prefacio a la exposición de Dehner · ICAA Documents Project · ICAA/MFAH". icaa.mfah.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ↑ Falk, Peter Hastings (1990). The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888–1950. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press. Search this book on
See also:[edit]
- “Walt Dehner’s Art: Six Points of View.” ICAA Documents Project.
- Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Editions Grund, Paris, 2006. Vol. 4, p. 590.
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