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Summer Evening

1945

Mabel Dwight

Associated Names

Mabel Dwight

Artist, American, 1875 - 1955

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

The image shows a street scene at night. A group of people are gathered under a streetlamp next to a building with a covered porch. Two utility poles with wires are visible, one with a bright light. Figures are under the porch, talking. A small dog is nearby. Shadows are prominent, created with cross-hatching for depth and texture.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 30.7 × 24.1 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1570
Catalogue Raisonné

Robinson & Pirog 1997, no. 110

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1997

Robinson, Susan Barnes, and John Pirog. Mabel Dwight: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 139, no. 110.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Mabel Dwight; lower right edge in grpahite by unknown hand: Summer Evening

Wikidata ID

Q76441239

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