| Mabel
Dwight (1876-1955)
The Great Trapeze
Act-
1930, Lithograph.
Robinson and Pirog
48. Edition 40. Signed and dated in pencil.
Image size 8 11/16
x 13 3/8 inches (205 x 329 mm); sheet size 11 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches (292
x 403 mm).
A fine, rich impression,
on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent
condition. Printed by George Miller. Scarce.
Exhibited: Art Institute
of Chicago, 1930; American Artist’s Congress, 1936; Society of American
Etchers, 1937; Weyhe Gallery, 1932, 1938; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum,
1973; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1980, 1992.
Illustrated in Theatre
Arts Monthly, August, 1931; New York Times, Jewell, Jan.
9, 1932; The Artist in America: Twenty-four Close-ups of Contemporary
Printmakers, Zigrosser, Knopf, 1942; American Artist 13, Zigrosser,
1949; 14 American Women Printmakers of the '30's and 40's,
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1973.
Collections: Philadelphia
Museum of Art; Randolph-Macon.
“The modern
circus has lost its innocence, and it robs us of ours...Most adults remember
the circus when it was a thing of human proportions, when the clowns were
jolly fellows you might even shake hands with, where you saw so many wonderful
things in one small tent that they lasted you all these years...Now the
clowns are a running blur in an arena a block away from you. But many
people never see the arena nowadays; they just get closeups of the "ten
cents, only one dime" buzzards who buzz thicker than flies around
the old time lemonade bowls. Altogether they must cart the contents of
a wharehouse through the aisles and over your toes, at each performance
–hundreds of Kewpie dolls in one basket, a basket large enough to
blot out all of the Great Trapeze Act...” –Mabel Dwight, A
Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs, Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1997.
$3600. Sale
Price $2700. |
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