{"data":{"id":"21231","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":21231,"topgoose_id":3909,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":21231,"title":"Puppet","display_artist_text":"Kiki Smith","display_date":"1993–1994","accession_number":"2004.26","dimensions":"Sheet (irregular): 58 × 30 5/16 in. (147.3 × 77 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 54 1/8 × 25 7/8 in. (137.5 × 65.7 cm)","medium":"Photogravure, aquatint, etching, and collage","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"PP 1/5 | Ed. 35","publication_info":"Printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc.","description":"\u003cp\u003eKiki Smith, \u003cem\u003ePuppet\u003c/em\u003e, 1993–1994. Photogravure, aquatint, etching, and collage, sheet (irregular): 58 × 30 5/16 in. (147.3 × 77 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 54 1/8 × 25 7/8 in. (137.5 × 65.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2004.26. co-copyright Kiki Smith and Universal Limited Art Editions\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eKiki Smith often uses elements of self-portraiture in her work, particularly in her prints. In the early 1980s, she asked artist David Wojnarowicz to photograph her in various poses, some of which were based on songs that she had written. Almost ten years later, Smith incorporated many of these photographs into the collage, \u003ci\u003ePuppet\u003c/i\u003e. This composite also includes a photograph of the artist’s niece and etchings based on reproductions in a Dutch magazine article about nudist camps. Photography, drawing, and printmaking are interrelated in \u003ci\u003ePuppet\u003c/i\u003e, as they are in other works by the artist. Smith is fluent in many media, and it often appears that her involvement with one material inspires or leads her to another.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Collage of black-and-white close-up faces and hands with small blue figures connected by strings.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:48:01.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:41.760-05:00","images":[{"id":105792,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/21231/2004_26_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3383","type":"artist"}]}}}}