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Imagination

Oscar F. Bluemner, 1932

59 cm × 79 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 79 cm
Width: 59 cm
Medium: casein and watercolor on paper, mounted to paperboard
Kind: Painting
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron L. Cowen and the William A. Clark Fund, 1979)

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

How big is it?: 59 cm × 79 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1932. 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: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron L. Cowen and the William A. Clark Fund, 1979).
How was it made?: Casein and watercolor on paper, mounted to 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.

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