Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart

At Whitney Exhibitions, “Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart” presents the work of Mabel Dwight, an American printmaker who used lithography to observe public life with plainspoken precision. The exhibition situates her images in the social currents of early 20th-century New York, where labor, leisure, and civic ritual share the same crowded frame. In a city that helped define modern American art institutions, Dwight’s unsentimental humor reads as a record of how people moved through power and hardship. The show argues, quietly, that empathy can be documentary evidence.