Harlem Rent Party. (Rent Party.)

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• ARTIST: Mabel Dwight

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: 1929.

• EDITION SIZE: Edition 44. Image size 10 1/4 x 11 15/16 (26.2 x 30.2 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Signed and dated in pencil. The lithograph is based on a scene from the play "Harlem" by W. J. Rapp and Wallace Thurman, which opened at the Apollo Theatre on February 20, 1929. The drama began and ended with a rent party - a wild evening of music, dancing, and drinking held to raise money to pay the landlord. <BR> <BR> In April 1929 a preliminary drawing (location unknown) was reproduced in "Theatre Guild Magazine."

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Very good condition.

• REFERENCE: Robinson & Pirog, #38..

• CATEGORIES: 20th-21st Century Subjects , Contemporary