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Dehner sculpture on extended loan at JCSMAUBURN, Ala. --The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is pleased to announce the addition of a new sculpture by artist Dorothy Dehner to the Grand Gallery. Dark Harmony is a large scale sculpture crafted from fabricated steel and reflects many of the formal interests Dehner investigated throughout her long career. The sculpture is abstract in composition, yet its jagged shapes and totemic structure call to mind natural forms, such as a dancer’s gestures or the silhouette of a tree. Dark Harmony displays a lyrical quality not found in the work of many of Dehner’s first-generation Abstract Expressionist colleagues. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1901, Dehner started her career in visual arts after a trip to Europe in 1925. She was inspired by the experience of viewing important Cubist and Constructivist works of art while there and enrolled at the Art Students League after returning to New York. Dehner’s early art consisted mainly of Cubist- and Surrealist-inspired paintings and drawings, but in the mid-1950s she turned her attention to sculpture. After working in cast bronze for several decades, Dehner began producing sculpture in fabricated steel during the 1980s, often executed in very large scale. The subject of more than 50 solo exhibitions in the United States, Dehner is represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Phillips Collection, and many others. She continued to make sculpture until her death in 1994 at age 92. The exhibition of Dark Harmony was made possible by an extended loan from the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts and through the consideration of Kraushaar Galleries in New York. JCSM extends its gratitude to both of these institutions for the opportunity to display Dehner’s work for the community to experience.
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