Art, literature & historyAncestors
1954
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- relief etching in red on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 5.2 × 19.8 cm (2 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 11.3 × 24.4 cm (4 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.41.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ancestors — Dorothy Dehner. 1954.
Medium: relief etching in red on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 5.2 × 19.8 cm (2 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 11.3 × 24.4 cm (4 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2021.41.2. Gift of Shelly and Gerry Elliott.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.