biografia di Mabel DWIGHT (1876-1955)

Birth place: Cincinnati, OH

Death place: Sellersville, PA

Addresses: NYC, c.1903; Pipersville, PA; San Francisco, CA

Profession: Lithographer, landscape and portrait painter, illustrator, drawing specialist

Studied: Calif. School Design; Hopkins Art Sch., A. Mathews, San Fran., c.1899; worked with French printer Duchatel, Paris, 1927

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1903; WMAA, 1921-41; Soc. Indep. Artists, 1921, 1925-26; AIC, 1934; Wehye Gal., 1938; San Francisco Sketch Club, 1898; Fed. Art Gal., 1939

Member: Am. A. Cong.; Am. Artists Group.

Work: MMA; BMFA; CMA; AIC; WMAA; FMA; Detroit Mus.; Brooklyn Mus.; Albright Art Gal.; FA Gal., San Diego; Randolph-Macon College; Berlin Mus.; Germany; Victoria and Albert Mus.; London; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Comments: Known for her sharply satirical lithographs showing people on the streets and in various NYC locations, and for her scenes of bathers at Coney Island. Traveled extensively in Europe and Asia in 1920s, and returned to NYC in 1928 to devote herself to lithography. Author, Satire in Art," written for the Federal Art Project c.1936, reproduced in Art for the Millions, ed. Francis V. O'Connor (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Soc., 1973). Also appears as Mabel Williamson, Mrs Eugene Higgins.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 608; Carl Zigrosser, "Mabel Dwight: Master of ComÈdie Humaine," American Artist (June 1949): 42-45; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 224-25; Falk, Exh. Record Series.