Summer Evening
1945
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
image: 30.7 × 24.1 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.1570
Art Historical Context
**Summer Evening**, a captivating 1945 lithograph by American artist Mabel Dwight, invites viewers into the quiet rhythms of urban life. Created in black ink on a modest scale—image measuring 30.7 × 24.1 cm—this print exemplifies Dwight's mastery of lithography, a planographic technique that allowed her to achieve dramatic contrasts and intricate details through grease crayon and tusche on stone or metal plates. The larger sheet size (40.3 × 30.3 cm) provided ample margins, typical for exhibition-ready works. Dwight, active from the 1920s through the 1940s, was a key figure in American printm...