Untitled

© Gregory Crewdson / Gagosian Gallery

Untitled

Currently not on view

Untitled,

1994

Gregory Crewdson, American, born 1962
1995-122
In his series Natural Wonder, Crewdson makes colorful and romantic yet eerie images from elaborate model sets built in the studio. The appearance of green lawns and white picket fences in the background of several of the photographs suggests a setting of American suburbia. Crewdson creates mysterious, beautiful, and psychologically unsettling scenes of nature encroaching on man-made spaces. This diorama of birds perched around a dead fox under a grape arbor conflates fantastical imagery with death. Coupled with these seemingly innocent birds is a Hitchcockian apprehension—do these birds mourn the fox or seek to feast on its decaying flesh?
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Title
Untitled
Dates

1994

Maker
Gregory Crewdson
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 71.2 x 91.4 cm (28 1/16 x 36 in.) sheet: 76.1 x 101.5 cm (29 15/16 x 39 15/16 in.) frame: 89 × 108.8 × 4.8 cm (35 1/16 × 42 13/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
1995-122
Place Made

North America, United States

Inscription
Signed, editioned, and dated in ink, lower right corner: Gregory Crewdson 6/6 1994
Culture
American
Type
photographs, chromogenic color prints, color photographs
Techniques
chromogenic processes
Subject
woods, leaves, foxes, trees, grass, red, orange, brown, green (color), blue, white (color)

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