# Mabel Hewit

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**Mabel Hewit** (1903–1984) was an American woodblock print artist, particularly the white-line style of the [Provincetown Printers](/source/Provincetown_Printers).

## Early life and education

Mabel Amelia Hewit was born in 1903 in [Conneaut, Ohio](/source/Conneaut,_Ohio),[1][2] and was raised in [Youngstown](/source/Youngstown,_Ohio), where she graduated in 1921 from South High School. She attended [Ohio State University](/source/Ohio_State_University), and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1926.[2] While there, she was a member of the [Pen and Brush Club](/source/Pen_and_Brush_Club), [Panhellenic](/source/Panhellenic) Council, [Zeta Tau Alpha](/source/Zeta_Tau_Alpha), and [Kappa Phi](/source/Kappa_Phi). She also was on the staff of ‘’Phoenix’’.[3]

She then taught in [Detroit](/source/Detroit) and Youngstown's public schools. In 1932, she received her master's degree from the [Teachers College, Columbia University](/source/Teachers_College,_Columbia_University).[2] While at Columbia, she took art classes from [Blanche Lazzell](/source/Blanche_Lazzell), who created woodblock prints using the white-line technique, at her studio at [Provincetown](/source/Provincetown_Printers), Massachusetts. She also took art lessons at the Summer School of Painting at [Saugatuck, Michigan](/source/Saugatuck,_Michigan) over sixteen summers.[2]

## Career

During the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States), in 1934, she moved to Cleveland with her sister, Ednah Jurey, a weaver and certified public accountant, and lived there and then Parma for the rest of her life.[2] She had a studio in Cleveland.[4]

Hewit made prints of city and small-town life from that time. Using the white-line woodblock technique, she created prints of women sunbathing at the beach, *The Ball Game* (1934), factories, and neighbors with gable-roofed house that reflect her interest in [modernism](/source/Modernism) in the slightly abstract forms. Her works reflect influence of 19th-century Japanese [ukiyo-e](/source/Ukiyo-e) woodblock prints, her study with Lazzell, and French works, like that of [Paul Gauguin](/source/Paul_Gauguin) and [Maurice Denis](/source/Maurice_Denis). She said that she liked "block printing because it gives the family of moderate means an opportunity to have something of color and art in their homes."[2]

In 1946, she captured an outdoor scene of a couple playing chess in *Summer Chess*. She made *Janitzio* of an island of a Mexican lake in 1954 that "says 'early paradise' with extreme economy.[2] She also made prints on fabric. She made watercolor paintings, lithograph prints, enamels on metal, and ceramics.[1] Her enamel works, which were in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, were exhibited in 1949.[4]

She died in 1984. An exhibit of her work was held in 2010 at the [Cleveland Museum of Art](/source/Cleveland_Museum_of_Art),[2] with an accompanying book for the show, *Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit*.[5]

## References

1. ["Gallery Views of Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit"](https://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/midwest-modern-color-woodcuts-mabel-hewit/gallery-views). Cleveland Museum of Art. 16 January 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2017.

1. Steven Litt (July 12, 2010). ["Mabel Hewit woodblock prints celebrated at Cleveland Museum of Art"](https://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/07/hewit.html). Cleveland.com. Retrieved February 4, 2017.

1. "Ohio State University yearbook", U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1926

1. ["Artist to Lecture on Enamel Works"](https://www.newspapers.com/image/69082937/?terms=Mabel%2BHewit). *The Pantagraph*. November 9, 1949. p. 2. Retrieved February 4, 2017. – via newspapers.com.

1. Jane Glaubinger (2010). [*Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-fPFbwAACAAJ). Cleveland Museum Of Art. ISBN 978-1-935294-01-6.

## Further reading

- Peter Hastings Falk (ed.) (1999). *Who Was Who in American Art. 400 years of artists in America*. Second ed. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press.
- Blanche Lazzell; Barbara Stern Shapiro; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2002). [*From Paris to Provincetown: Blanche Lazzell and the color woodcut*](https://books.google.com/books?id=28TpAAAAMAAJ). MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts. ISBN 9780878466290.

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