Dance to Jehive
1948
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 34.7 x 25.8 cm (13 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 46.6 x 32.5 cm (18 3/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.399
Art Historical Context
**Dance to Jehive**, a captivating 1948 lithograph Leonard Nelson, invites viewers into a rhythmic world of movement and abstraction. Created as a black ink print on smooth wove paper, the measures 34.7 x 25.8 cm, with the full sheet at 46.6 x 32.5 cm. Housed in the National Gallery of Art CG-W department and generously gifted by collector Jacob Kainen, this exemplifies mid-20th-century print's accessibility and expressive power. Lithography, Nelson's chosen medium, allowed for rich tonal variations and fluid lines directly transferred from stone or plate to paper—a technique prized for its p...