id:			162891
accession number:	2003.372
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.372
updated:		2020-11-04 21:53:38.983000

The Sandwich Men, c. 1933. Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984). Color woodcut; sheet: 33 x 28 cm (13 x 11 in.); image: 27.2 x 20.6 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.372 © Mabel A. Hewit

title:				The Sandwich Men
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creation date:			c. 1933
creation date earliest:		1928
creation date latest:		1938
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit
copyright:			© Mabel A. Hewit

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 33 x 28 cm (13 x 11 in.); Image: 27.2 x 20.6 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
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	description:	beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower left margin, in graphite: Sandwich Men; signed, lower right margin, in graphite: Mabel A. Hewit; lower right margin corner, in pencil: "65" [This inscription by Mr. William Jurey]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit
	opening date:   2010-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 24, 2010).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
While most of Hewit’s prints depict pleasant pastimes and scenes of everyday life, Sandwich Men is unusual, as it portrays the economic perils of the Great Depression. Having lost their previous employment, the two well-dressed men are reduced to walking the streets wearing advertising placards for meager pay. The anonymous figures, although dignified, lack facial features and emotion. Rather than participating in a dramatic narrative, they play their part in a decorative arrangement of generalized forms and unmodulated masses of color.
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