Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), an American lithographer and watercolorist, captured Manhattan in images that reflect the spirit, pulse, and unique tonalities of the city he made his home.capture the city’s burlesque theaters and Harlem nightclubs, skyline, teeming harbor, and the bucolic refuge of Central Park.

This publication includes an essay by Philip Eliasoph, PhD, an art historian in Fairfield University’s Visual & Performing Arts department. In 2016, Eliasoph designed and authored the Arts & Visual Culture blog for the New York Times. He is also an elected member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, UNESCO’s art critic organization based in Paris. Henry Adams, who contributed the foreword, is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University and the author of 14 art-related books and catalogues, as well as hundreds of articles on art and artists. He has also served as the curator of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.