Salman Toor

Two Boys with a Dog

Maker

Salman Toor (American

Title

Two Boys with a Dog

Year

2020

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez

Object Number

2020.48

Type

Exhibition History

Any distance between us
Jul 17, 2021 – Mar 13, 2022

Label copy

“I like these seemingly undernourished and hairy bodies of color inhabiting familiar, bourgeois, urban interior spaces. I see these boys or men as well-educated creative types discovering what it means to live an artist’s life in New York City, and in the thick of changing ideas about race, immigration, and foreignness, and also what it means to be American. Sometimes they can look like lifestyle images. They are also fantasies about myself and my community. It’s incredibly empowering to share the comedy and disquiet of these narratives with Americans, and the world.”

-Salman Toor, 2021

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Salman Toor (American
b. Pakistan, b. 1983)
Two Boys with a Dog, 2020
Oil on panel
35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 inches)
Museum purchase: gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez 2020.48

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