{"data":{"id":"407","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":407,"topgoose_id":10798,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":407,"title":"The Red Smile","display_artist_text":"Alex Katz","display_date":"1963","accession_number":"83.3","dimensions":"Overall: 78 7/8 × 115 in. (200.3 × 292.1 cm)","medium":"Oil on linen","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlex Katz, \u003cem\u003eThe Red Smile\u003c/em\u003e, 1963. Oil on linen, overall: 78 7/8 × 115 in. (200.3 × 292.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 83.3. © Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Red Smile\u003c/i\u003e, Alex Katz painted a profile of his wife Ada’s face, set against a smooth red background. Although the portrait bears Ada’s features, it’s simplified, almost billboard-style rendering seems generic—an effect reinforced by its large scale, nearly 7 x 10 feet. Katz’s broad, unmodulated expanses of color resist a three-dimensional reading, which allies his work with Minimalist art that reduced form to bare essentials. The scale of the work, coupled with the cropping of the image and its smooth painting surface, produces an effect that the artist describes as the “immediate sensation you see before you focus.” \u003cb\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\u0026nbsp;","ai_alt_text":"A smiling woman in profile wearing a blue headband and white shirt against a red background.","alt_text":"A woman wearing red lipstick smiles softly, her face in profile against a more vivid red background.","visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:37:47.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:33.286-05:00","images":[{"id":91980,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/407/83_3_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"676","type":"artist"}]}}}}