
Description
Adam Van Doren, Modernist Architecture Watercolor and Graphite on paper. Framed and Matted. Height 23 1/4 Inches, Width 19 Inches, Depth 1 Inch. Signed Adam Van Doren. As seen in Artsy at $11,000.
Van Doren grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Chicago.[2] He comes from a long line of academics and literary figures: his grandfather was Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren,[2] and his grandmother was Dorothy Van Doren, a longtime editor of The Nation. His great-uncle was Carl Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer who married New York Herald Tribune's book review editor Irita Bradford Van Doren. His uncle, Charles Van Doren, was an editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and was a former quiz show celebrity implicated in the 1950s quiz show scandals and was dramatized in the movie 1994 Quiz Show. His father, John Van Doren, was also an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
Provenance:
A Greenwich CT Mansion
Summa Gallery NYC
Period: 2000-2021
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use.
Creation Date: 2015
Styles / Movements: Modern, Contemporary
Dealer Reference #: 101-9194
Incollect Reference #: 679158
Reserve: $1,870.00
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Modernist Watercolor Signed by Adam Van Doren, Architecture, City, Framed
Estimate $2,000-$2,500
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Era of Elegance: Furniture & Dec Arts
Apr 09, 2026 4:00 PM EDTNew York, NY, United States
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