Art, literature & history"Never Think before You Act"
1921
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut on light tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 12 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 15 x 11.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.109.53
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
"Never Think before You Act" — M.C. Escher. 1921.
Medium: woodcut on light tan wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 12 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 15 x 11.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.109.53. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection.
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.