Untitled (Still Life with Hands, St. Johns)
Dorothy Dehner
American, 1901–1994
Details
Title
Untitled (Still Life with Hands, St. Johns)
Artist/Maker
Dorothy Dehner (American, 1901–1994)
Date
1932
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches
Credit
Purchase with funds from prior acquisitions
Accession #
2015.180
Location
Currently not on view
In pursuit of an exotic landscape, Dorothy Dehner and her husband, sculptor David Smith, lived for nine months on the Caribbean islands of St. Thomas and St. John, where she experimented with local subjects in all manner of media. The unusual perspective and oblique angles of this combined landscape and still life lend it an air of the surreal. Dehner framed the central subject, a spare but colorful cluster of local fruits, between two hands, as if demonstrating her process of scoping for the best view.
Image Copyright
© Dorothy Dehner