{"data":{"id":"29450","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":29450,"topgoose_id":11186,"portfolio_id":29116,"tms_id":29450,"title":"Untitled (Girl with Dolphin and Monkey)","display_artist_text":"Jeff Koons","display_date":"2006","accession_number":"2006.80.1.2","dimensions":"Sheet: 27 3/8 × 40 in. (69.5 × 101.6 cm)","medium":"Chromogenic print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":29116,"portfolio":"Whitney Museum of American Art 75th Anniversary Photography Portfolio","edition":"AP 11/12 | Ed. 25, 1 PP, 1 HC","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeff Koons, \u003cem\u003eUntitled (Girl with Dolphin and Monkey)\u003c/em\u003e, 2006. Chromogenic print, sheet: 27 3/8 × 40 in. (69.5 × 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art 2006.80.1.2. © Jeff Koons\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eCommissioned by the Whitney for the Museum’s 75th Anniversary Photography Portfolio, Jeff Koons created this surreal combination of pin-up girl, dolphin and monkey against a banal but colorful background. Referencing his characteristic themes of childhood, consumerism, and sexuality, the photograph includes one of Koons’s favored motifs: inflatables that resemble children’s pool toys. Koons began using inflatable figures in the late 1970s; they have since appeared in his paintings and photographs and as enlarged cast metal sculptures that are almost indistinguishable from the original objects. Koons’s fascination with blow-up toys stems from a Styrofoam swimming apparatus he had as a child. As he remarked, “it was like a life-saving tank. . .It gave me a great sense of independence. Pool toys are inflatable, just like people. Inflatables really are metaphors for the continuation of life.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A woman in lingerie kneels on an inflatable dolphin and kisses a small inflatable elephant.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:39:59.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:36.131-05:00","images":[{"id":108139,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/29450/2006_80_1_2_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3310","type":"artist"}]}}}}