{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1592"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Timothy and Pamela Hill"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1965"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1981    20    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1981.20.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil pastel on laid paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Austin"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1285/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1285"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Celebration"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Austin"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"Carl Wilhelm Edward Arning was born in 1898, in Germania, Texas, and left school after six years to work on his father\u2019s farm. In his late 20s, he began to experience symptoms of mental illness; in 1928, after several violent episodes, he was committed to a state hospital in Austin, where he remained until furloughed to a nursing home in 1964 after his symptoms had disappeared. Encouraged by an art teacher at the home, Arning began to draw. His career was further nurtured by a group of collectors who provided materials and friendship. He enjoyed ten productive years, during which he made more than two thousand drawings. In 1973, after leaving the home to live with his sister, Arning ceased working.Arning\u2019s primary medium was an oil pastel manufactured by the Japanese company Cray-Pas that was developed during the 1920s to encourage unhampered creativity in Japanese children after a period of cultural upheaval. For the first time, Japanese children were urged to engage in free-form drawing rather than copying, but no appropriate material was available to facilitate this goal. The artist Yamamoto joined forces with two private school owners in Tokyo, and together they formulated Cray-Pas, Cray meaning ease of application and Pas referring to the saturated color in dry pastels that they sought in their own product."},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Austin"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"153227"},"geographyState":{"value":"Texas"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"327","content":"Eddie Arning"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"Carl Wilhelm Edward Arning was born in 1898, in Germania, Texas, and left school after six years to work on his father\u2019s farm. In his late 20s, he began to experience symptoms of mental illness; in 1928, after several violent episodes, he was committed to a state hospital in Austin, where he remained until furloughed to a nursing home in 1964 after his symptoms had disappeared. Encouraged by an art teacher at the home, Arning began to draw. His career was further nurtured by a group of collectors who provided materials and friendship. He enjoyed ten productive years, during which he made more than two thousand drawings. In 1973, after leaving the home to live with his sister, Arning ceased working.Arning\u2019s primary medium was an oil pastel manufactured by the Japanese company Cray-Pas that was developed during the 1920s to encourage unhampered creativity in Japanese children after a period of cultural upheaval. For the first time, Japanese children were urged to engage in free-form drawing rather than copying, but no appropriate material was available to facilitate this goal. The artist Yamamoto joined forces with two private school owners in Tokyo, and together they formulated Cray-Pas, Cray meaning ease of application and Pas referring to the saturated color in dry pastels that they sought in their own product."},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1965"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1965"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"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":"Thursday, August 8, 1996 - Sunday, December 29, 1996","exhibitionEndISODate":"1996-12-29","exhibitionID":"83","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-08-08","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"American Expressions of Liberty","exhibitionEndDate":"1996"}]},"curatorialRemarks":{"label":"Curatorial Remarks","value":""},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"21 7/8 × 31 7/8\""}}]}