Adolf Arthur Dehn

Best known as a lithographer, Minnesota native Adolf Dehn also worked as a painter and art teacher. His artwork is in the collections of over 80 museums. During the 1930s, Dehn was employed in the graphic arts division of the New Deal’s Federal Art Program and was an artist for the New York Art Project, Federal Art Project, and the Works Progress Administration. He designed posters for the U.S. Navy and the Treasury Department during World War II. After the war he had a successful career as a commercial artist and lithographer.