id: 168619 accession number: 2010.34 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.34 updated: 2023-08-24 00:43:57.383000 Old Man, 1937. Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903–1984). Lithograph; sheet: 28.8 x 20.3 cm (11 5/16 x 8 in.); image: 19 x 14.3 cm (7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2010.34 © Mabel A. Hewit title: Old Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1937 creation date earliest: 1937 creation date latest: 1937 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: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903–1984) - artist Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Sheet: 28.8 x 20.3 cm (11 5/16 x 8 in.); Image: 19 x 14.3 cm (7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 12 support materials: description: wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower margin, in graphite: "Old Man ed. 12 1937 Mabel A. Hewit" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit opening date: 2010-06-26T04:00:00 Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 24, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Hewit first made lithographs in 1935 and probably learned the technique at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute in Cleveland where printmaker Kálmán Kubinyi taught. The majority of her lithographs, however, were made at the Summer School of Painting at Saugatuck, Michigan, also known as Ox-Bow. For 16 summers starting in 1937, she studied lithography with Francis Chapin, an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who became director of Ox-Bow in 1943. Lithography allows the artist to work freely, as one draws directly onto the surface of a lithography stone with a greasy crayon or a greasy wash called tusche. Hewit rarely used tusche, preferring the grainy broad strokes of the crayon. But after drawing the design, she often employed a sharp tool to create white accents by scratching into the crayon marks. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES