{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1063"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Dorothea and Leo Rabkin"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1984"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1984     2    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1984.2.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Lacquered gouache on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"San Juan"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1422/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1422"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Memories of the Veteran"},"geographyCity":{"value":"San Juan"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Nick Quijano appreciates the universal appeal of small moments that communicate on a deeply personal level. He paints his life: born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, he spent his summers on \"La Isla del Encanto,\" the enchanted island, through elementary school, when the family returned full-time to the island. He calls his paintings \"collages\" of memories from childhood. In this scene, he depicts himself standing beside his beloved grandmother on one side and his sister on the other; the three figures are connected through the children\u2019s trusting touch. A portrait of his uncle Juan, a veteran, hangs above the family grouping, a gentle reminder of Puerto Rico\u2019s steadfast contribution to safeguarding the American way of life. Quijano views his art that invokes people from his past and present as a corrective; the story of his mixed race culture that he found was missing from the art he encountered in formal museum settings.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cNick Quijano Torres,\u201d exhibition brochure for American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2020).Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","The mixing of patterns and the blending of races comes together in this domestic scene to illustrate Nick Quijano\u2019s personal experience of Puerto Rico as a diverse, vibrant, and creolized culture. The rhythm and sensuality of Torres\u2019s homeland is illuminated in this small, innocent rendering of a family portrait. Made with gouache, it shows the artist\u2019s grandmother sitting in between the artist as a young boy and his sister. Above them and looking down over them is a symbolic rendering of Uncle Juan, an army veteran. The three sitters look out at the viewer from a highly baroque decorated interior. Quijano aims in his artwork to depict the story of the mixed-race culture of Puerto Rico. Inspired to do so after seeing a Puerto Rican art exhibition that expressly celebrated, in his words, \u201chigh society, the Anglo experience,\u201d Quijano decided to \u201cpaint what he knew,\u201d and what was not depicted at other art venues. The confluence of cultures and races is echoed in the interaction of design; a flowery wallpaper, striped carpet, and doily-rich couch seem to symbolize the interface between cultures.","Although the artist was born in New York, in 1967 after completeing his secondary educaton, he elected to move to Puerto Rico, leaving his family behind. He graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico and has had a longstanding interest in music and art. He is very proud of his black and Puerto Rican heritage and tries to incorporate elements of his pride in his paintings. This work was inspired by the sight of his grandmother sitting beneath a portrait of her son."]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Treasures of Folk Art: Museum of American Folk Art"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"San Juan"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"152962"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":""},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"lower left: 'Quijano'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"Puerto Rico"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"885","content":"Nick Quijano"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Nick Quijano appreciates the universal appeal of small moments that communicate on a deeply personal level. He paints his life: born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, he spent his summers on \"La Isla del Encanto,\" the enchanted island, through elementary school, when the family returned full-time to the island. He calls his paintings \"collages\" of memories from childhood. In this scene, he depicts himself standing beside his beloved grandmother on one side and his sister on the other; the three figures are connected through the children\u2019s trusting touch. A portrait of his uncle Juan, a veteran, hangs above the family grouping, a gentle reminder of Puerto Rico\u2019s steadfast contribution to safeguarding the American way of life. Quijano views his art that invokes people from his past and present as a corrective; the story of his mixed race culture that he found was missing from the art he encountered in formal museum settings.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cNick Quijano Torres,\u201d exhibition brochure for American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2020).Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","The mixing of patterns and the blending of races comes together in this domestic scene to illustrate Nick Quijano\u2019s personal experience of Puerto Rico as a diverse, vibrant, and creolized culture. The rhythm and sensuality of Torres\u2019s homeland is illuminated in this small, innocent rendering of a family portrait. Made with gouache, it shows the artist\u2019s grandmother sitting in between the artist as a young boy and his sister. Above them and looking down over them is a symbolic rendering of Uncle Juan, an army veteran. The three sitters look out at the viewer from a highly baroque decorated interior. Quijano aims in his artwork to depict the story of the mixed-race culture of Puerto Rico. Inspired to do so after seeing a Puerto Rican art exhibition that expressly celebrated, in his words, \u201chigh society, the Anglo experience,\u201d Quijano decided to \u201cpaint what he knew,\u201d and what was not depicted at other art venues. The confluence of cultures and races is echoed in the interaction of design; a flowery wallpaper, striped carpet, and doily-rich couch seem to symbolize the interface between cultures.","Although the artist was born in New York, in 1967 after completeing his secondary educaton, he elected to move to Puerto Rico, leaving his family behind. He graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico and has had a longstanding interest in music and art. He is very proud of his black and Puerto Rican heritage and tries to incorporate elements of his pride in his paintings. This work was inspired by the sight of his grandmother sitting beneath a portrait of her son."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1984"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"verso in Spanish: 'My grandmother Katin, Colin and Tita beneath photo of veteran son'"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1984"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, May 22, 2021 - Sunday, October 8, 2023","exhibitionEndISODate":"2023-10-08","exhibitionID":"245","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2021-05-22","exhibitionBeginDate":"2021","exhibitionTitle":"American Perspectives (Travel)","exhibitionEndDate":"2023"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - Sunday, August 23, 2009","exhibitionEndISODate":"2009-08-23","exhibitionID":"132","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2004-11-16","exhibitionBeginDate":"2004","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Art Revealed","exhibitionEndDate":"2009"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - Sunday, January 3, 2021","exhibitionEndISODate":"2021-01-03","exhibitionID":"239","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2020-02-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2020","exhibitionTitle":"American Perspectives","exhibitionEndDate":"2021"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"12 1/4 x 12 1/4 \" (31.1 x 31.1 cm)"}}]}