{"data":{"id":"33804","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":33804,"topgoose_id":17213,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":33804,"title":"Untitled","display_artist_text":"Huma Bhabha","display_date":"2008","accession_number":"2008.31","dimensions":"Sheet: 13 7/16 × 20 in. (34.1 × 50.8 cm)","medium":"Ink on chromogenic print","department":"collection","classification":"Drawings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuma Bhabha, \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e, 2008. Ink on chromogenic print, sheet: 13 7/16 × 20 in. (34.1 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2008.31. © Huma Bhaba\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Huma Bhabha is known for her figurative sculptures, she was trained in painting and printmaking, and often works with photography as well. Like her large-scale, anthropomorphic sculptures, \u003ci\u003eUntitled\u003c/i\u003e takes the human body as its primary subject and point of reference. Here, the viewer is oriented at ground-level, peering out at a desolate landscape and a lurid red sky through the frame of two legs. This image belongs to a series of prints in which Bhabha used pen, brush, and india ink to draw on black-and-white photographs she had shot of stalled construction sites and deserts on a recent trip to her native Pakistan. Drawing by hand over the printed mages allowed Bhabha to insert a powerful human presence into these forsaken landscapes. As she remarked: “I started out with the feet, which in the context of the photographs looked enormous—as though they belonged to giants or were close-ups of monumental sculpture.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Barren cracked desert framed by dark painted tree forms under a bright red horizon.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:37:02.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:20.845-05:00","images":[{"id":109175,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/33804/2008_31_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"11391","type":"artist"}]}}}}