{"data":{"id":"236","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":236,"topgoose_id":12584,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":236,"title":"Cantileve","display_artist_text":"Nancy Graves","display_date":"1983","accession_number":"83.39a-b","dimensions":"Overall: 98 5/8 × 70 11/16 × 50 5/8 in. (250.5 × 179.5 × 128.6 cm)","medium":"Bronze with polychrome patina","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"1","publication_info":"Cast by Tallix Foundry","description":"\u003cp\u003eNancy Graves, \u003cem\u003eCantileve\u003c/em\u003e, 1983. Bronze with polychrome patina, overall: 98 5/8 × 70 11/16 × 50 5/8 in. (250.5 × 179.5 × 128.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 83.39a-b. © The Nancy Graves Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1979, Nancy Graves took up direct bronze casting—a process in which an original heat-perishable object is surrounded with a mold and then fired in a kiln, creating a negative space into which molten metal is then poured. Working at Tallix Foundry in Beacon, New York, Graves used this traditional technique to create sculptures comprised of objects and artifacts from both ancient and contemporary life, urban and agricultural societies, and the manmade and natural worlds. After casting individual objects in bronze, Graves welded them into open, skeletal structures, as in \u003ci\u003eCantileve\u003c/i\u003e. She subsequently added polyurethane paint as well as powdered glass and anodized aluminum to emphasize or subvert the sculpture’s forms and configuration. Here, Graves plays with the structure of a cantilever, a beam anchored on only one end—a defiance of gravity whose precarious appearance is accentuated by the casts made from raffia fans positioned at the work’s base. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Interior of an art gallery with paintings and sculptures displayed on walls and freestanding panels.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:59:33.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:46.773-05:00","images":[{"id":91861,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/236/83_39_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"519","type":"artist"}]}}}}