Mabel Dwight

Buried Treasure
1935–1939

A black and white illustration depicting an older man bending over to speak with a young child who is holding a doll. The man is wearing a hat and a coat with a handkerchief in the pocket, and the child is in a long dress. They are standing next to an ornate metal railing, possibly on a porch or balcony. The image is labeled as a "File Proof" titled "Buried Treasure" by artist M. Dwight, part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) art project.

A black and white illustration depicting an older man bending over to speak with a young child who is holding a doll. The man is wearing a hat and a coat with a handkerchief in the pocket, and the child is in a long dress. They are standing next to an ornate metal railing, possibly on a porch or balcony. The image is labeled as a "File Proof" titled "Buried Treasure" by artist M. Dwight, part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) art project.

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Date
1935–1939

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 11 7/16in. (40.6 × 29.1 cm) Image: 12 7/8 × 9 7/8in. (32.7 × 25.1 cm)

Accession number
94.119

Edition
File proof | Ed. 25

Publication
Published by WPA/FAP--New York Project

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/9211

Exhibitions

Modernisms

Aug 29, 2007–Jan 13, 2008

Mabel Dwight
27 works in the collection

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