Art, literature & history
Man Running from Elephants
1901
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted to board
- Dimensions
- sheet: 33.66 × 24.13 cm (13 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.) board: 43.5 × 34.29 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.513
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Peter Newell. Man Running from Elephants. Peter Newell; 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:Peter_Newell,_Man_Running_from_Elephants,_1901,_NGA_181125.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Man Running from Elephants — Peter Newell. 1901.
Medium: watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted to board.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 33.66 × 24.13 cm (13 1/4 × 9 1/2 in.) board: 43.5 × 34.29 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.513. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee, 1941).
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.