{"data":{"id":"20876","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":20876,"topgoose_id":6472,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":20876,"title":"Live to Ride (E.P.)","display_artist_text":"Elizabeth Peyton","display_date":"2003","accession_number":"2005.41","dimensions":"Overall: 15 1/16 × 12 1/16 in. (38.3 × 30.6 cm)","medium":"Oil on board","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of David Teiger in honor of Chrissie Iles","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Peyton, \u003cem\u003eLive to Ride (E.P.)\u003c/em\u003e, 2003. Oil on board, overall: 15 1/16 × 12 1/16 in. (38.3 × 30.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of David Teiger in honor of Chrissie Iles 2005.41. © 2003, Elizabeth Peyton\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eWith their small scale, Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits possess an intimate, even devotional, quality, one that is accentuated by their luminous color and smooth surfaces—as in the artist’s diminutive self-portrait \u003ci\u003eLive to Ride (E.P.)\u003c/i\u003e. Yet while Peyton is interested in what portraiture can reveal about a subject, a concern of equal importance—manifest in \u003ci\u003eLive to Ride\u003c/i\u003e—is the question of what it can also keep mysterious or hidden. Though the work is rich with incidental detail, such as the patterning on a blanket against which she reclines and the decal on her T-shirt, it nonetheless reveals little about its maker. With her steady eyes and closed mouth, she appears impenetrable, and her pose, while casual, seems preternaturally still.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Young person in a bright pink shirt holding a small device while sitting at a patterned table.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:04:30.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:00.552-05:00","images":[{"id":105573,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/20876/2005_41_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"8317","type":"artist"}]}}}}