[The clinch, movie theatre] / Mabel Dwight. – Vintage Wall Art
![[The clinch, movie theatre] / Mabel Dwight., [1928] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/41/41ddd2a3bd2c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of [The clinch, movie theatre] / Mabel Dwight.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The clinch, movie theatre] / Mabel Dwight.
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Here a couple sits wrapped in an embrace while the rest of the audience watches the screen, the kind of private moment that a darkened movie house made easy in 1928. Mabel Dwight, a Realist lithographer who turned her eye to everyday American life, drew the scene in the same period when movie palaces were drawing huge crowds into cities and towns. The print survives in a second state and is signed in pencil, and it shows how the picture house had become a place for courtship as well as entertainment.
| Created / published | [1928] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 23.2 x 29.6 cm. (image), 28 x 36.4 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. Second state. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Mabel Dwight: catalogue raisonne of the lithographs / Susan Barnes Robinson and John Pirog. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 79 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. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2002:170.1425 |
| Subjects | Motion picture theaters--1920-1930. Motion picture audiences--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,782 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220131 |
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