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[The clinch, movie theatre] (LOC)

Dwight, Mabel,, 1876-1955,, artist.

 

[The clinch, movie theatre]

 

[1928]

 

1 print : lithograph ; 23.2 x 29.6 cm. (image), 28 x 36.4 cm. (sheet)

 

Notes:

Title from: Mabel Dwight : catalogue raisonné of the lithographs, 1997.

Signed in pencil "Mabel Dwight" lower right.

Edition of 50 printed by George Miller.

Second state.

Mabel Dwight: catalogue raisonne of the lithographs / Susan Barnes Robinson and John Pirog. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 79

Interior view of movie theater showing members of the audience annoyed by late arrivals looking for seats during a romantic scene in the movie.

(DLC/PP-2002:170.1425).

Forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection.

Published in: American women painters of the 1930s and 1940s: the lives and work of ten artists / Robert Henkes. Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 1991, p. 117.

Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999.

 

Subjects:

Motion picture theaters--1920-1930.

Motion picture audiences--1920-1930.

 

Format: Lithographs--American--1920-1930.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection (DLC) 2009632515

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00778

 

Call Number: Goldstein, no. 210

 

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Uploaded on July 10, 2026
Taken sometime in 1928