Art, literature & history
Cirsium canum
1928
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- photogravure
- Dimensions
- image/plate: 26 × 19 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 31.2 × 24.2 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2006.133.34.84
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Karl Blossfeldt. Cirsium canum. Karl Blossfeldt; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Cirsium canum — Karl Blossfeldt. 1928.
Medium: photogravure.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image/plate: 26 × 19 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 31.2 × 24.2 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2006.133.34.84. Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund.
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.