The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 13, 2025

Sun Bathing

1937
(American, 1903–1984)
America
color woodcut
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.
  • Collection of the artist
  • Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 24, 2010).
    Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
  • {{cite web|title=Sun Bathing|url=false|author=Mabel A. Hewit|year=1937|access-date=13 May 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.362