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Museum Guard

1936

Mabel Dwight

Associated Names

Mabel Dwight

Artist, American, 1875 - 1955

Federal Art Project (New York City)

Publisher

This is a drawing of a bedroom with baby-like figures hanging from the ceiling. The room features a grand bed with an intricately carved headboard. Above the bed, multiple cherubic figures swing and frolic from the drapery and ceiling ornaments, creating a whimsical atmosphere. The room's decor is lavish, with classical elements such as a decorative panel featuring a figure in relief. The image conveys a sense of humor and fantasy with its contrasts between the formal setting of the room and the lively antics of the cherubs above.

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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: 35 × 25.6 cm (13 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
sheet: 49.5 × 36.6 cm (19 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1568
Catalogue Raisonné

Robinson & Pirog 1997, no. 84

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2018

Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1997

Robinson, Susan Barnes, and John Pirog. Mabel Dwight: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 121, no. 84.

Inscriptions

lower center in black ink: Museum Guard; lower right in black ink: Mabel Dwight; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: #16

Markings

stamped lower left in black ink: FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA

Wikidata ID

Q76550465

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