Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart

About the exhibition

Mabel Dwight (1876–1955) wrote that keeping “a cool head and a warm heart” was essential to making art that would be a “living influence on the world.” Dwight came to New York at the turn of the century as an illustrator and later fell in with the downtown artists who frequented the Whitney Studio Club, a precursor to the Museum. She ultimately found her voice in the swooping lines and seamless gradients of lithography. This democratic print medium became her primary vehicle for portraying her c