Art, literature & history
Small World
1914
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 14.4 × 9.5 cm (5 11/16 × 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 41.7 × 31.8 cm (16 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.308
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Klee. Small World. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Small World — Paul Klee. 1914.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 14.4 × 9.5 cm (5 11/16 × 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 41.7 × 31.8 cm (16 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.308. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.