Synopsis of a Battle

1968

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: oil-based house paint and waxed crayon on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 199.39 × 259.72 cm (78 1/2 × 102 1/4 in.) framed: 204.47 × 264.8 × 4.76 cm (80 1/2 × 104 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
Collection no.: 2014.136.130
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Official collection metadata; attribution follows named catalogue, not an independent authenticity determination. Holdings are not ownership or current display. Museum accessioned painting; no museum-highlight designation or current-display claim. Source Wikidata creator identity matched exactly. Dataset textual dates checked against numeric search dates. Full provenance, inscriptions, terms and catalogue text preserved in the separate research staging record. Attribution: primary Collection credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1977).

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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