Ferry Boat

1930

Mabel Dwight

Associated Names
Mabel Dwight

Artist, American, 1875 - 1955

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

The image shows three women closely seated together from just above the knees upward. The woman on the left wears a short-sleeved dress, round glasses, and a cloche hat. The central woman sits with her arms crossed, wearing a dark dress and a large hat with a pompom. The woman on the right holds an open book and wears a dark habit, a wimple, and a crucifix around her neck. In the background, there is an urban setting with industrial structures and boats visible on a body of water.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.81 × 25.72 cm (9 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.115.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robinson & Pirog 1997, no. 50

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Bethesda Fine Art, Bethesda, Maryland); Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, D.C., 1984; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • American Modernism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, February 20–March 17, 2020 and June 18, 2021–March 2, 2022.

Bibliography

1997

  • Robinson, Susan Barnes, and John Pirog. Mabel Dwight: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 93, no. 50.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Mabel Dwight - 1930

Watermarks

BFK

Wikidata ID

Q77015391

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