{"data":{"id":"4086","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":4086,"topgoose_id":14996,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":4086,"title":"Brothers","display_artist_text":"Mabel Dwight","display_date":"1928","accession_number":"31.719","dimensions":"Sheet (Irregular): 16 × 11 5/8 in. (40.6 × 29.5 cm)\r\nImage: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm)","medium":"Lithograph","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Ed. 50","publication_info":"Printed by George C. Miller; published by Weyhe Gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003eMabel Dwight, \u003cem\u003eBrothers\u003c/em\u003e, 1928. Lithograph, sheet (Irregular): 16 × 11 5/8 in. (40.6 × 29.5 cm)\r\nImage: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.719. Mabel Dwight’s works are in the public domain in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eCompleted soon after Mabel Dwight first studied lithography in Paris, \u003ci\u003eBrothers\u003c/i\u003e exemplifies the artist’s interest in depicting the foibles of society through satirizing contemporary manners. Dwight often pictured New York’s subways, vaudeville houses, landmarks, and spaces of leisure—here, she depicts the zoo. Though the apes reside behind the bars and the men stand in front of them, the perspective could just as easily be reversed, as the title, \u003ci\u003eBrothers,\u003c/i\u003e suggests, in its association of primate and man. An early commentator noted: “In many of her lithographs Mabel Dwight sees life as a two-sided show—the show on the stage and off—presented simultaneously, and offering rich chance for comparisons.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Several chimpanzees press against cage bars while a crowd, led by a serious man, watches.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":true,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:23:35.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-23T06:00:01.536-05:00","images":[{"id":119156,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/4086/31_719_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"388","type":"artist"}]}}}}