Robinson, Susan Barnes and John Pirog. MABEL DWIGHT: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs. 181 pp. with 8 color plates and over 150 b&w figures. 4to, cloth. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Known for her observant eye and satirical depictions of New York City life, Mabel Dwight (1875-1955) began her career as a lithographer at the age of 52, and gained widespread renown as a printmaker in the 1920s and 1930s. This book, assembling for the first time all 111 of her editioned lithographs, brings together Dwight's own descriptions of how her work evolved, her essays on satire and lithography, and complete documentation of each print. As a cultural history, this book traces the change in popular taste that made Dwight's social realism so popular. Announced for December.