Self-Portrait

Malvin Gray Johnson (1896–1934)

Date: 1934
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 38¼ × 30 in (97.2 × 76.2 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1967.57.30. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 4.3 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 2 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	631 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 0.2 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	457 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 4.3 %	12 × 15¼ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	400 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 2 %	15¾ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	315 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 4.3 %	18 × 23 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	266 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 4.3 %	30 × 38¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	160 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 4.3 %	36 × 46 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	133 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 442 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 665 × 842 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 1,579 × 2,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 5,052 × 6,400 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.