Art, literature & historyAncestors
1954
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 5.24 × 20 cm (2 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 16.51 × 30.48 cm (6 1/2 × 12 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.3080
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ancestors — Dorothy Dehner. 1954.
Medium: etching and aquatint in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 5.24 × 20 cm (2 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 16.51 × 30.48 cm (6 1/2 × 12 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3080. Corcoran Collection (Gift of James Marston Fitch, 1998).
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.