{"data":{"id":"24764","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":24764,"topgoose_id":11960,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":24764,"title":"DeLuxe","display_artist_text":"Ellen Gallagher","display_date":"2004–2005","accession_number":"2006.340a-hhh","dimensions":"Overall: 84 1/4 × 175 in. (214 × 444.5 cm)","medium":"Photogravure, lithograph, etching, aquatint, drypoint, screenprint, and collage with plasticine, acrylic, pomade, laser-cutting, metal foil, opaque watercolor, oil, enamel, graphite pencil, velvet, glitter, aluminum powder, and plastic, sixty parts","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":"DeLuxe","edition":"1/20","publication_info":"Printed and published by Two Palms","description":"\u003cp\u003eEllen Gallagher, \u003cem\u003eDeLuxe\u003c/em\u003e, 2004–2005. Photogravure, lithograph, etching, aquatint, drypoint, screenprint, and collage with plasticine, acrylic, pomade, laser-cutting, metal foil, opaque watercolor, oil, enamel, graphite pencil, velvet, glitter, aluminum powder, and plastic, sixty parts, overall: 84 1/4 × 175 in. (214 × 444.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 2006.340a-hhh\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than a year, Ellen Gallagher worked on \u003ci\u003eDeLuxe\u003c/i\u003e, an ambitious and technically complex portfolio of sixty prints that was the focus of its own exhibition at the Whitney. The artist began by culling advertisements for, among other items, hair straightening products, wigs, and stockings from issues of black magazines from the 1930s through the 1970s, such as \u003ci\u003eEbony, Our World, Black Stars\u003c/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSepia\u003c/i\u003e. She then backed them with paper and transformed them using collage methods, both excising and adding facial features and blocks of text. She subsequently turned the collages into photogravures, an old printing technique that yielded flat and seamless images. Finally, Gallagher altered the photogravures, coloring them in, shaping wigs and masks from Plasticine, and attaching adornments such as beads, rhinestones, and gold leaf. According to the artist’s specifications, \u003ci\u003eDeLuxe\u003c/i\u003e is installed as neat grid—a nod to the modernist aesthetic whose pictorial strategies she frequently plumbs—but its components, each radically different from the next, subvert any possibility of cohesion or a singular message, despite the reappearance of certain figures and themes across the panels. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A large grid of framed illustrations and prints arranged in rows on a white gallery wall.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:56:08.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:41.949-05:00","images":[{"id":107161,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/24764/2006_340a-hhh_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"4358","type":"artist"}]}}}}