Fox Games

Artist Sandy Skoglund (American, born 1946)

Date1989

MediumDye destruction print

DimensionsImage: 47 x 63 3/4 inches (119.38 x 161.93 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.170

SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in black: "Sandy Skoglund 30/30"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/ProofEd. 30/30

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DescriptionImage of a restaurant where every non-living thing (tables, chairs, windows, chandelier, bread in the baskets etc.) is a shade of gray. In the back corner two people are being served by a waiter as bright red foxes scamper around the room.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.

Rotation 4. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 20, 2008 – January 15, 2009, no cat.

Rotation 27. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 23, 2019–February 2, 2020, no cat.

Gallery Label

Sandy Skoglund creates room-size installations to photograph. Here, she constructs a familiar interior space—a restaurant dining room. The three people, two diners and a waiter, appear oblivious to the action around them. Twenty-three red foxes disrupt this ordinary scene, leaping and frolicking, playing, pouncing, and hunting. The foxes are not misbehaving; they exhibit behaviors consistent with wild animals. Skoglund pushes the boundaries of what is perceived as “natural,” reminding the viewer that humans are also animals.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1991;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas CIty, MO, 2005.

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