Art, literature & historyA Finger on the Drum
1940
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 38.1 × 54.61 cm (15 × 21 1/2 in.) framed: 45.72 × 62.23 × 3.81 cm (18 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.136.92
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Finger on the Drum — Kay Sage. 1940.
Medium: oil on canvas.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 38.1 × 54.61 cm (15 × 21 1/2 in.) framed: 45.72 × 62.23 × 3.81 cm (18 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.136.92. Corcoran Collection (Gift of the estate of the artist, 1963).
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.