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Dancing Sailors
Charles Demuth, 1917
1.70 m
26 cm × 20 cm
About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 7 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 20 cm
- Width
- 26 cm
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite
- Kind
- Drawing
- Made in
- America
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- Sheet: 20.4 x 25.7 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Credit
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 26 cm × 20 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1917. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund.
- How was it made?
- Watercolor over graphite, made in America, America.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
