Collection Online as of April 1, 2023
Sun Bathing
Mabel A. Hewit
(American, 1903–1984)
Color woodcut
Support: Heavy Japan paper
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.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.362
© Mabel A. Hewit
Location
not on view
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.
Mabel A. Hewit
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.