id: 162884 accession number: 2003.366 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.366 updated: 2019-02-13 23:03:28.210000 Houses, c. 1936. Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984). Color woodcut; sheet: 33.7 x 43.7 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/16 in.); image: 23.5 x 35 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.366 © Mabel A. Hewit title: Houses title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1936 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1941 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit copyright: © Mabel A. Hewit --- culture: America, 20th century technique: color woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 33.7 x 43.7 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/16 in.); Image: 23.5 x 35 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid imitation Japanese paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left margin, in graphite: Houses; lower right margin, in graphite: Mabel A. Hewit; lower left margin corner, in graphite: #1; inscribed, lower right margin corner, in graphite: 29 [This is inscribed by William Jurey] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit opening date: 2010-06-01T00:00:00 Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 20-October 24, 2010). title: Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit opening date: 2010-06-26T00:00:00 Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 26-October 24, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, June 26, 2010 - October 24, 2010: "Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit," exhibited in the Prints and Drawings Exhibition gallery.

Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 228): April 15, 2013 - August 12, 2013. --- PROVENANCE Collection of the artist date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Before a woodblock can be carved, the board is usually planed, scraped, and possibly sanded to make it smooth. The surface is not always prepared properly, however, and in Houses the shallow, evenly spaced, parallel vertical ripple marks made in the wood by a machine planer transferred to the paper upon printing and are particularly evident in the sky. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES