Five women carrying baskets with birds and fruit while dancing against a warm orange background.

Drawings

The Dark One

1953

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 3/4 × 29 5/16 in. (52.7 × 74.5 cm)
Accession number
56.29
Acquired
1956
Credit line
Purchase, and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett, by exchange
Department
collection

About this work

Adolf Dehn, The Dark One, 1953. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 20 3/4 × 29 5/16 in. (52.7 × 74.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett, by exchange 56.29

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