Art, literature & history
Nudes Dancing around a Shadow
1936
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut printed in black on Japan paper [proof]
- Dimensions
- sheet: 40.7 × 66.5 cm (16 × 26 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.93.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Nudes Dancing around a Shadow. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner,_Nudes_Dancing_around_a_Shadow,_1936,_NGA_199298.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Nudes Dancing around a Shadow — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1936.
Medium: woodcut printed in black on Japan paper [proof].
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 40.7 × 66.5 cm (16 × 26 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.93.1. Purchased as the gift of Nelson Blitz, Jr. and Catherine Woodard in Honor of Perri and Allison Blitz.
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.