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Painted Chest

Sumner Merrill, c. 1937

28 cm × 23 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 23 cm
Width: 28 cm
Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and some heightening on paperboard
Kind: Index of American Design
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Index of American Design

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 28 cm × 23 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1937. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Index of American Design.
How was it made?: Watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and some heightening on paperboard.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.