{"data":{"id":"2160","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2160,"topgoose_id":18131,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2160,"title":"Woman with Dog","display_artist_text":"Duane Hanson","display_date":"1977","accession_number":"78.6a-f","dimensions":"Overall: 46 1/8 × 50 1/2 × 48 in. (117.2 × 128.3 × 121.9 cm)","medium":"Acrylic and oil on cast polyvinyl with clothing, hair, eyeglasses, watch, shoes, upholstered wood chair, dog hair, leather collar, woven rug, postcard, letters, and envelopes","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Frances and Sydney Lewis","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuane Hanson, \u003cem\u003eWoman with Dog\u003c/em\u003e, 1977. Acrylic and oil on cast polyvinyl with clothing, hair, eyeglasses, watch, shoes, upholstered wood chair, dog hair, leather collar, woven rug, postcard, letters, and envelopes, overall: 46 1/8 × 50 1/2 × 48 in. (117.2 × 128.3 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Frances and Sydney Lewis 78.6a-f. © Estate of Duane Hanson / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eLike most of Duane Hanson’s sculptures, \u003ci\u003eWoman with Dog\u003c/i\u003e projects an uncanny verisimilitude. Hanson often worked on a single figure for up to one year—locating models, making polyvinyl casts directly from their bodies (a method he developed in 1967), assembling and painting the casts, and finally outfitting the sculptures with clothing and accessories. Despite their extreme realism, however, Hanson’s sculptures are not usually likenesses of specific people. The pile of letters in \u003ci\u003eWoman with Dog\u003c/i\u003e, for example, is addressed to a Minnie Johnson, but the model for the work was someone else who lived near Hanson’s Florida studio. \u003ci\u003eWoman\u0026nbsp;with Dog\u003c/i\u003e thus presents a constructed, even composite character. As Hanson remarked, \"I wanted a credible, unpretentious working class type of woman at mail time enjoying the fellowship of a friendly letter and her pet dog.\"\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A woman sits on a chair reading a letter while a small white dog sleeps on the rug.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:20:22.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:27.420-05:00","images":[{"id":93784,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2160/78_6a-f_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"560","type":"artist"}]}}}}