If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It
<p>Amy Sherald, <em>If You Surrendered to the Air, You Could Ride It</em>, 2019. Oil on linen, overall: 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Sascha S. Bauer, Jack Cayre, Nancy Carrington Crown, Nancy Poses, Laura Rapp, and Elizabeth Redleaf 2020.148. © Amy Sherald</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- Overall: 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Amy Sherald
Artist
Painting
Amy Sherald is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects. Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge conventions about skin color and race.
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- Amy Sherald
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- Overall: 130 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. (330.2 × 274.3 × 6.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2019-169250
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified