{"data":{"id":"3167","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":3167,"topgoose_id":6159,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":3167,"title":"Four Men","display_artist_text":"David Park","display_date":"1958","accession_number":"59.27","dimensions":"Overall: 57 1/8 × 92 1/16 in. (145.1 × 233.8 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from an anonymous donor","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Park, \u003cem\u003eFour Men\u003c/em\u003e, 1958. Oil on canvas, overall: 57 1/8 × 92 1/16 in. (145.1 × 233.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from an anonymous donor 59.27\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eThis large painting, created two years before David Park’s death, depicts a beach inhabited by four male figures wearing bathing trunks. Three of the men face the viewer on the shoreline as if they were posing for a photograph, while a fourth, seated in a rowboat, moves in the opposite direction through the water. Working from memory rather than preparatory studies, Park used a thick, large brush loaded with saturated pigments to create blocks of color that oscillate between descriptive references and abstract notations. The result is that, like a memory, the scene and the personalities of the figures emerge from and dissolve back into abstraction in equal measure.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Four young men in swim trunks standing and sitting on a beach, painted with bold brushstrokes.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:02:48.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:58.470-05:00","images":[{"id":94958,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/3167/59_27_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"991","type":"artist"}]}}}}