Title: Caribbean Fantasy.
Artist: Adolf Dehn (1895-1968)
Color paintagraph, 1953.
Edition not noted. c.250.
Published by Associated American Artists.
Signed in pencil. AAA blind stamp partially into signature.
Image size 17 1/8 x 11 3/8" (43.5 x 28.9 cm).

#498 in "The Prints of Adolf Dehn. A Catalogue Raisonne" by Lumsdaine and O'Sullivan.

Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) Painter and printmaker was born November 22, 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art where he met and became close to Wanda Gag. The two earned a scholarship to study at the Art Students League. Dehn traveled to Europe after WWI he drew satirical images of people at the opera and burlesque houses that earned him acclaim and were used in "Vanity Fair" and other publications. He returned to New York in 1929 and produced a remarkable body of lithographic images of the city before earning a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveling the southwest.

He is best known for his depictions of human eccentricities. His satirical images captured human nature in a fashion that had not been seen before. He was elected to the National Academy in 1961 and his art is in hundreds of museums worldwide.

Condition: Very good condition. No tears or stains.