Artist
Mabel Dwight
born Cincinnati, OH 1876-died Sellersville, PA 1955
- Born
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Died
- Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Paris, France
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
Although Mabel Dwight studied painting in her youth at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco, she was fifty years old before she began to practice art seriously. Born in Cincinnati, she spent her childhood and youth in New Orleans and California and also traveled extensively in France, Italy, India, and Ceylon. While in Paris in 1927 she became interested in lithography. Dwight, who was deaf, was a keen observer of the human comedy, which she depicted with humor and compassion in her work.
National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)