Mabel Amelia Hewit was born in 1903 in Conneaut, Ohio,[1][2] and was raised in Youngstown, where she graduated in 1921 from South High School.

[2] While at Columbia, she took art classes from Blanche Lazzell, who created woodblock prints using the white-line technique, at her studio at Provincetown, Massachusetts.

[2] During the Great Depression, in 1934, she moved to Cleveland with her sister, Ednah Jurey, a weaver and certified public accountant, and lived there and then Parma for the rest of her life.

Using the white-line woodblock technique, she created prints of women sunbathing at the beach, The Ball Game (1934), factories, and neighbors with gable-roofed house that reflect her interest in modernism in the slightly abstract forms.

An exhibit of her work was held in 2010 at the Cleveland Museum of Art,[2] with an accompanying book for the show, Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit.