Greetings from the House of Weyhe

The Weyhe Gallery in New York City was a center of American printmaking in the 1920s and 1930s. Each year, the Gallery commissioned a holiday greeting card from one of the artists it represented. This was Mabel Dwight’s card design for 1928. She depicted the Gallery’s director, Carl Zigrosser, wearing a bow tie and leaning against the bookcase. Dwight was a printmaker who specialized in portraying scenes of everyday life in Manhattan. She studied painting at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco but learned lithography in Paris. Her work was widely exhibited in her lifetime. During the 1930s, she created a series of anti-fascist works and participated in the American government’s Federal Arts Project to aid unemployed artists.