{"data":{"id":"8028","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":8028,"topgoose_id":16543,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":8028,"title":"Skinny Woman","display_artist_text":"John Currin","display_date":"1992","accession_number":"92.30","dimensions":"Overall: 50 1/8 × 38 1/16 in. (127.3 × 96.7 cm)","medium":"Oil on linen","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from The List Purchase Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Currin, \u003cem\u003eSkinny Woman\u003c/em\u003e, 1992. Oil on linen, overall: 50 1/8 × 38 1/16 in. (127.3 × 96.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The List Purchase Fund and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 92.30\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAmong John Currin‘s earliest works are portraits of anonymous aging females, exemplified by the figure depicted in \u003ci\u003eSkinny Woman\u003c/i\u003e. Although her pose is reminiscent of a fashion model, the artist complicates this association by giving the woman an aged, thin body and silvery gray hair. Currin’s work draws on a variety of sources—from Northern Renaissance and early Mannerist paintings to contemporary fashion magazines—to create deceptively naturalistic portraits. Endowed with seemingly recognizable faces and bodies that are often elongated or distorted, these composite figures could live nowhere but in his art. As he has explained, “The people I paint don’t exist. The only thing that is real is the painting. It’s not like a photograph where there’s another reality that existed in a certain moment in time in the past.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"An older woman with short white hair stands with one hand on her hip, looking upward.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:32:44.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:15.963-05:00","images":[{"id":99334,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/8028/92_30_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3563","type":"artist"}]}}}}