##### 20 June - 23 August 2024
##### Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York
The exhibition includes more than sixty works exploring the many roles a pup might play in the life of an artist: muse, metaphor, and companion.
This presentation features work by Craigie Aitchison, Trisha Baga, Sophie Barber, Hanna Brody, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Ann Craven, Scott Csoke, Anthony Cudahy, Alex Da Corte, Armen Eloyan, Camilla Engström, Julia Felsenthal, Louis Fratino, Robert Gober, Camille Henrot, Peter Hujar, Timothy Hull, Paul-Sebastian Japaz, Susumu Kamijo, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Craig Kucia, Sean Landers, Sophie Larrimore, Sahara Longe, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eddie Martinez, Jesse Mockrin, Matthew Morrocco, Grandma Moses, Rocío Navarro, Justin Liam O'Brien, Gordon Parks, Hilary Pecis, Pablo Picasso, Paula Rego, Robert Roest, Will Ryman, Peter Saul, Allison Schulnik, Dana Schutz, Kiki Smith, Billy Sullivan, David Surman, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, William Wegman, and Jonas Wood.

Artmaking is a famously solitary process. What would art of the last century have been without such faithful studio mates as William Wegman's Weimaraners or Pablo Picasso's (ungenerously named) dachshund Lump? Dogs have been a feature of visual culture since at least 8,000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers carved an image of leashed dogs into a sandstone cliff. A symbol of fidelity, protection, playfulness, and unconditional love, canines pop up in the paintings of Titian, Jan van Eyck, John Singer Sargent, and Gustave Courbet, among countless other masters.

Dog Days of Summer will feature Yellow Lab (2022), a stately seaside portrait in meticulous detail by Sean Landers, alongside works created specifically for the exhibition by Hilary Pecis, Jesse Mockrin, and Ann Craven. In Pecis's Mango (2024), a smart, diminutive pup nestles into an array of pillows whose vibrant patterns seem to distort the perspective of an otherwise familiar domestic scene. Another lapdog appears in Mockrin's graphite drawing Pearl (2024); here, the dramatic curl of a pug's tail mirrors the Rococo embellishments of its owner's gown. Elsewhere, Craven's lush, painterly Magic and Moonlight in Night Field (2024), evokes the sinewy physicality and anthropomorphic nature of a French Bulldog. 

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A group exhibition that centers on man's best friend as a timeless subject in art history.

Dog Days of Summer

Dog Days of Summer

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