Ancestors
1954
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View on museum website →Medium
etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 5.24 × 20 cm (2 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 16.51 × 30.48 cm (6 1/2 × 12 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of James Marston Fitch)
Accession Number
2015.19.3080
About the Artist
Dorothy Dehner
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an American sculptor and printmaker whose distinctive artistic voice emerged fully only in midlife, following decades of work that had been overshadowed by her marriage to the prominent sculptor David Smith. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dehner studied at the Art Students League in New York, where she met Smith, and the two became central figures in the circle of American...