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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Penitentes Graveyard

1929

Mabel Dwight

Associated Names

Mabel Dwight

Artist, American, 1875 - 1955

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

The image shows a winter landscape with a wooden fence, wooden crosses on snowy ground, a mountain range in the distance, and a small adobe building with a cross on the roof. The artwork uses bold brushstrokes and a monochrome color palette of black and grey.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

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

image: 25.5 × 33.5 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
sheet: 28.8 × 40.5 cm (11 5/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1561
Catalogue Raisonné

Robinson & Pirog 1997, no. 44

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. 88, no. 44.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Mabel Dwight - 1929

Watermarks

BFK / FRANCE

Wikidata ID

Q76550468

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