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Light and Shadow: The Shadows of Dissipation Falling upon the Poor
1870-1900
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite, ink wash, and gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 30.96 × 23.5 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.753
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Carter Beard. Light and Shadow: The Shadows of Dissipation Falling upon the Poor. James Carter Beard; 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:James_Carter_Beard,_Light_and_Shadow_-_The_Shadows_of_Dissipation_Falling_upon_the_Poor,_1870-1900,_NGA_179505.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Light and Shadow: The Shadows of Dissipation Falling upon the Poor — James Carter Beard. 1870-1900.
Medium: graphite, ink wash, and gouache on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 30.96 × 23.5 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.753. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund, 1951).
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.