This painting shows four individuals - three women and one child - in an indoor setting. One woman is seated on a chair on the left, wearing a purple and blue dress under a black coat, with white gloves and a gray hat.

Family Group

William Glackens (American, 1870–1938)

Date: 1910/1911
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 72 × 84 in (182.8 × 213.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1971.12.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Glackens

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 30 × 35 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 72¼ in (184 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

30 × 35 in landscape print (76 × 89 cm), centered 72¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 6.6 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1960 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 8.3 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1425 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.5 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1306 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 6.6 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	980 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 12.5 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	871 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 12.5 %	30 × 35 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	522 dpi, crisp 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) 560 × 477 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 718 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,704 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 18,400 × 15,681 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (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.