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Sketchbook #1: Houses and church steeple (page 53)

c. 1937

Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
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Culture
America
Medium
graphite
Measurements
Overall: 25.5 x 20 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2005.343.53
Copyright
© Mabel A. Hewit
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Hewit prepared carefully for the lithograph Old Man, as this is one of four drawings of the sitter in Sketchbook No. 1.
A vertically oriented graphite drawing on off-white paper depicts a large tree formed by dense scribbled lines in the upper left and a cluster of simplified houses in the middle ground. In the foreground, vertical zigzags suggest a grassy bank. To the right, thin vertical lines rise above the rooftops to form a church steeple and spires. The overlapping buildings are rendered in loose, sketchy outlines against the blank paper.

Sketchbook #1: Houses and church steeple (page 53)

c. 1937

Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
America

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