12 Facts About Mabel Dwight

Mabel Dwight was an American artist whose lithographs showed scenes of ordinary life with humor and tolerance.

Mabel Dwight met and in 1906 married fellow artist Eugene Patrick Higgins.

Mabel Dwight met the New York art print dealer Carl Zigrosser sometime before the outbreak of World War I, and, with his encouragement, traveled to Paris in 1926 to spend a year studying lithographic art in the Atelier Duchatel.

Mabel Dwight made the lithograph called Basque Church, shown here, Image No 4, while she was abroad.

Mabel Dwight's work had appeared in group exhibitions of the Whitney Studio Club, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and in solo exhibitions at the Weyhe Gallery and Duke University.

Mabel Dwight's work had been featured in Vanity Fair seven times between November 1928 and September 1930.

In 1934, Mabel Dwight joined the Public Works of Art Project.

Mabel Dwight suffered from asthma and became increasingly hard of hearing to the point of deafness.

In 1936, Mabel Dwight contributed an essay to a book that the Federal Art Project intended to publish in order to demonstrate the importance and quality of the program and its artists.

Mabel Dwight was a lifelong socialist whose views were primarily based, as she wrote in her 1936 essay, "Satire in Art", on hatred of the vast distance that separated the poor from the rich in the United States.

In 1893, the Williamsons moved to San Francisco where Mabel Dwight was privately tutored while attending high school.

Mabel Dwight was a conscientious objector and militant socialist fourteen years younger than her.