id:			120747
accession number:	1941.480
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.480
updated:		2022-01-04 15:23:30.944000

Queer Fish, 1936. Mabel Dwight (American, 1876-1955). Lithograph; platemark: 27 x 33 cm (10 5/8 x 13 in.); sheet: 32.8 x 45.5 cm (12 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1941.480

title:				Queer Fish
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1936
creation date earliest:		1936
creation date latest:		1936
current location:		
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Robinson and Pirog 80

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CREATORS

* Mabel Dwight (American, 1876-1955)  - artist

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measurements: Platemark: 27 x 33 cm (10 5/8 x 13 in.); Sheet: 32.8 x 45.5 cm (12 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
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support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite, lower right: "Mabel Dwight 1936"
	translation:	
	remark:		

	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: "American Artists Group, 106 Seventh Ave, New York/Queer Fish by Mabel Dwight/MD © 1936"
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Golden Age of American Printmaking
	opening date:   1982-01-12T05:00:00
	<i>A Golden Age of American Printmaking</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 12-April 18, 1982).

	title:		Urban Vicissitudes
	opening date:   1985-06-25T04:00:00
	<i>Urban Vicissitudes</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 25-September 29, 1985).

	title:		Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940
	opening date:   2021-07-18T04:00:00
	<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact: 
Founded in 1896, the New York Aquarium, where this scene takes place, was located in the Battery of lower Manhattan until it was relocated to Coney Island in 1941.

digital description: 
Mabel Dwight often visited the Battery neighborhood’s aquarium in Manhattan, which had opened in 1896 and was where, as she wrote in her unpublished autobiography, she observed the “expressions of aloof wonder” of the people staring through the glass to the “small world” beyond. She wrote humorously about the scene depicted in the print, describing how, during one visit, she observed a man and a grouper fish trying to outstare one another until “both swam away."

wall description: 
Mabel Dwight often visited the Battery neighborhood’s aquarium in Manhattan, which had opened in 1896 and was where, as she wrote in her unpublished autobiography, she observed the “expressions of aloof wonder” of the people staring through the glass to the “small world” beyond. She wrote humorously about the scene depicted in the print, describing how, during one visit, she observed a man and a grouper fish trying to outstare one another until “both swam away.”
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 33
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n40

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