By Jane Glaubinger
A catalogue for the first museum exhibition to explore the work of Ohio born artist Mabel Hewit.
Mabel Hewit (1903-1984) learned to make white-line color woodcuts from Blanche Lazzell, the most important practitioner of the technique, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1933. Throughout Hewit's five-decade long career, she used this particular woodcut method to develop her individual style.
Coming of age in the 1920's and well aware of European Modernism and contemporary trends, her exuberantly colored, modernist woodcuts depict Ohio scenery and diverse subjects based on her travels to various areas of the Midwest, Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean.
Catalogue to the exhibition Midwestern Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewitt.
June 26 - October 24, 2010
109 color illustrations
96 pages
9 1/2" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 9781935294016 (paper)
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