Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

MABEL DWIGHT (1875-1955)


Book Auction.
Lithograph. 187x216 mm; 7 3/8x8 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 40. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Printed by George Miller, New York. 1931.

A very good impression. Robinson/Pirog 63.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dwight studied painting at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco, but after learning lithography while travelng in Paris in 1927, she devoted most of her career to printmaking. She depicted everyday subjects often with a satirical bent. During the 1930s she participated in the Federal Arts Project in New York City.