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Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Rotunda, National Gallery of Art

1950

Ruth Perkins Safford

Associated Names

Ruth Perkins Safford

Artist, American, 1897 - 1979

This painting shows a large white urn on a pedestal, surrounded by tall black marble columns and white walls. Behind the columns is an open space containing a fountain with a sculpture in the center depicting a person standing on one leg and raising one arm up. Above the fountain is a tall, domed ceiling, and behind it the space continues onward towards another opening in the wall.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor
Credit Line

Paul Mellon Collection
Dimensions

overall: 65.1 x 50.6 cm (25 5/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

1967.22.1

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower left: @ Ruth Perkins Safford / 1950

Wikidata ID

Q64630187

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