"Back Fences (Provincetown)" by Mabel Hewit, Amer., (1903-1984) Woodcut

"Back Fences (Provincetown)" by Mabel Hewit, Amer., (1903-1984) WoodcutLithograph, 1930's 40's, ed. unknown but small, 7 3 4 x 11 1 4, signed & titled in pencil, on warm white BFK paper. Light trace of mat line. Hewit was a modernist painter and printmaker based in Ohio who spent time in Provincetown and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy. Her white line color woodcuts were showcased recently in an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The bright white at right edge is a reflection from the sheen of the japan paper

adding a "flutter" of life to it's subject

including Pop Hart

7-15/16 x 6

on buff wove simili vellum paper

A typed and signed note discussing the gift of this impression from Gustave Von Groschwitz

Originally an illustrator who studied with Harvey Dunn and N

His career as an artist was firmly rooted in both the 19th and 20th centuries

An etching by Bradshaw is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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trace of old hinges verso

from the 1982 movie