Desert

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in pen and black ink): Dehner '48; inscribed (lower right, in graphite): Desert

the artist, New York (1948–d. 1994); Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York (1994–97; their gift to MMA)

New Brunswick, N. J. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. "Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment," January 15–March 4, 1984, no. 8 (lent by Dorothy Dehner, New York).

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. The Skidmore College Art Gallery. "Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment," April 19–May 13, 1984, no. 8.

Katonah, N.Y. Katonah Museum of Art. "Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art," June 13–September 5, 1993, unnumbered cat. (pl. 5, lent courtesy of the artist and Twining Fine Art, New York).

Glen Falls, N.Y. Hyde Collection. "Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art," October 16–November 28, 1993, unnumbered cat.

Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art," December 18, 1993–March 7, 1994, unnumbered cat.

Joan Marter. Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment. Exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N. J., 1984, pp. 12–13, 37, no. 8, fig. 13.

Joan M. Marter. Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art. Exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah, N.Y., 1993, pp. 8–9, 57, pl. 5, notes this work is a self-portrait.

William Zimmer. "3 Shows Highlight 6 Decades of Dorothy Dehner." New York Times (July 18, 1993), p. WC18.

Mara R. Witzling, ed. Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists. New York, 1994, p. 22.

Douglas Dreishpoon in Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1940s and 1950sBetween Transcendence and Brutality—Louise Bourgeois, Dorothy Dehner, Herbert Ferber, Seymour Lipton, Isamu Noguchi, Theodore Roszak, David Smith. Exh. cat., Tampa Museum of Art. Tampa, Fla., 1994, p. 28.

Jo Ann Lewis. "At Long Last, Dorothy Dehner Gets Some Respect." Washington Post (January 2, 1994), p. G4, ill.

Ann Eden Gibson. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven, 1997, p. 140, fig. 154, notes this work is part of the "Damnation series".