{"data":{"id":"47421","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":47421,"topgoose_id":15653,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":47421,"title":"Tallest Residential Tower in the Western Hemisphere","display_artist_text":"Leidy Churchman","display_date":"2015","accession_number":"2015.164","dimensions":"Overall: 72 × 60 1/8 in. (182.9 × 152.7 cm)","medium":"Oil on linen","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeidy Churchman, \u003cem\u003eTallest Residential Tower in the Western Hemisphere\u003c/em\u003e, 2015. Oil on linen, overall: 72 × 60 1/8 in. (182.9 × 152.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez 2015.164\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eThis painting depicts the view from 432 Park Avenue, a 1,396-foot-high luxury condominium completed in 2015. While the tower has been heralded as a marvel of contemporary engineering, it has also sparked an outcry over its impact on New York’s skyline and the stratospheric cost of its apartments. Leidy Churchman based his canvas on a computer rendering by DBOX, which the artist located on the building developer’s website, that juxtaposed a luxurious bathroom interior with the sprawling mass of lower Manhattan beyond. Churchman’s dizzying composition is at once inviting and disconcerting, hinting at the building’s controversial status as a symbol of the glaring divide between the ultra-rich and ordinary New Yorkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A pink bathtub sits before a large window overlooking a city skyline at sunset.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:27:41.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:09.445-05:00","images":[{"id":114996,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/47421/2015_164_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"17037","type":"artist"}]}}}}