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Sun Bathing

1937
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Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Heavy Japan paper
Measurements
Sheet: 32.7 x 40.4 cm (12 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.); Image: 27.7 x 30.3 cm (10 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.362
Copyright
© Mabel A. Hewit
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Following modernist trends, Hewit emphasized the two-dimensional nature of the support. The brilliant crisp forms of the sun bathers flatten the space and push the figures close to the viewer. This emphasis on the picture plane continues in the background, where Hewit described the water as a stack of flat, jagged shapes topped by a brown band that fills the space to the borderline.
A square-oriented woodcut in flat, geometric planes depicts figures with medium skin tones at a beach. In the foreground, two figures lie face down in orange and maroon swimsuits. To the left, a figure in green hunches forward; on the right, a figure in dark blue sits upright. In the back, a person in yellow sits on a raft. Fields of yellow sand, blue water, and purple hills fill the composition.

Sun Bathing

1937

Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
America

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