{"data":{"id":"7768","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":7768,"topgoose_id":10512,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":7768,"title":"Untitled","display_artist_text":"Robert Longo","display_date":"1981","accession_number":"91.55","dimensions":"Sheet: 93 1/2 × 58 1/4 in. (237.5 × 148 cm)","medium":"Graphite pencil and opaque watercolor on paper","department":"collection","classification":"Drawings","credit_line":"Gift of Estelle Schwartz in honor of her parents, Dora and Abe Cohen","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":"Men in the Cities","edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Longo, \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e, 1981. Graphite pencil and opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 93 1/2 × 58 1/4 in. (237.5 × 148 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Estelle Schwartz in honor of her parents, Dora and Abe Cohen 91.55. © Robert Longo/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUntitled\u003c/i\u003e is part of Robert Longo’s \u003ci\u003eMen In Cities\u003c/i\u003e (1978-1983), a series of forty-four large-scale charcoal and graphite drawings depicting men and women, their bodies suspended on white backgrounds. Rendered at extreme angles, the figures are anonymous despite their intensity of emotion, and their dramatic, often contorted poses seem theatrical rather than natural. Indeed, when installed in a sequence of numerous panels, the individual images assume the appearance of film stills, albeit from films whose narratives are impossible to reconstruct or conjoin into a unified whole. Although Longo has frequently appropriated imagery from films, he captured these individuals—his friends and people from his neighborhood—with his own camera, posing on his roof as he pelted them with tennis balls to achieve the effect of surprise and recoil. He then made large-scale sketches based on the photographs with the aid of a projector, employing a graphic style redolent of commercial illustration.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A woman strides forward with one hand raised to her forehead, wearing a black skirt and heels.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:35:33.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:31.269-05:00","images":[{"id":99099,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/7768/91_55_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"795","type":"artist"}]}}}}