{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"2202"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph and Eva Fasanella"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1950"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1995     8    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1995.8.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"New York"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4806/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4806"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Subway Riders"},"geographyCity":{"value":"New York"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Ralph Fasanella has spoken eloquently about Subway Riders, painted from sketches he had made from life: \u201cI\u2019d ride the subway every day, back and forth to my machine shop job. I\u2019d ride and ride and sketch and sketch. I love the subway. It pulls the city together, pulls people together in a magic way. Here I show the subway riders at night after a hard day\u2019s work. Everyone is separate, alone, but very much together. It\u2019s noisy with the creaks and squeals, but peaceful, too, because we move to a rhythm and cadence that gets inside us; that\u2019s comforting, like the noise of the city itself. The subway makes the city work, makes the city great.\u201d Subway Riders is on loan from its permanent display in the Fifth Avenue/Fifty-Third Street subway station in New York; its installation in that highly visible location sustains the artist\u2019s ambition to reach out to the masses and show his paintings in public areas. \u201cI didn\u2019t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy\u2019s living room. They are about people and they should be seen by people\u2014not hidden away.\u201d Highly politicized, Fasanella was concerned about social justice and the inequities seen in the first half of the twentieth century, at one time having a career as a union organizer. His paintings, insightful and articulate, communicate the struggles of working-class life and his passion for the lives of people, depicting outdoor scenes without omitting details related to the intimacy of a personal world. His son, Marc, remarks that he \u201chad an incredibly active mind, incessantly absorbing new information and forming a theoretical and visual collage of ideas from the events of his daily life.\u201dValérie Rousseau, \u201cSubway Riders,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.","PAINTING"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"New York"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"153706"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"988","content":"Ralph Fasanella"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Ralph Fasanella has spoken eloquently about Subway Riders, painted from sketches he had made from life: \u201cI\u2019d ride the subway every day, back and forth to my machine shop job. I\u2019d ride and ride and sketch and sketch. I love the subway. It pulls the city together, pulls people together in a magic way. Here I show the subway riders at night after a hard day\u2019s work. Everyone is separate, alone, but very much together. It\u2019s noisy with the creaks and squeals, but peaceful, too, because we move to a rhythm and cadence that gets inside us; that\u2019s comforting, like the noise of the city itself. The subway makes the city work, makes the city great.\u201d Subway Riders is on loan from its permanent display in the Fifth Avenue/Fifty-Third Street subway station in New York; its installation in that highly visible location sustains the artist\u2019s ambition to reach out to the masses and show his paintings in public areas. \u201cI didn\u2019t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy\u2019s living room. They are about people and they should be seen by people\u2014not hidden away.\u201d Highly politicized, Fasanella was concerned about social justice and the inequities seen in the first half of the twentieth century, at one time having a career as a union organizer. His paintings, insightful and articulate, communicate the struggles of working-class life and his passion for the lives of people, depicting outdoor scenes without omitting details related to the intimacy of a personal world. His son, Marc, remarks that he \u201chad an incredibly active mind, incessantly absorbing new information and forming a theoretical and visual collage of ideas from the events of his daily life.\u201dValérie Rousseau, \u201cSubway Riders,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.","PAINTING"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1950"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1950"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - Sunday, August 17, 2014","exhibitionEndISODate":"2014-08-17","exhibitionID":"171","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2014-05-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"2014","exhibitionTitle":"Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2014"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - Thursday, February 8, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-02-08","exhibitionID":"214","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2017-09-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"2017","exhibitionTitle":"Highlights from Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, July 11, 2002 - Sunday, January 5, 2003","exhibitionEndISODate":"2003-01-26","exhibitionID":"73","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2002-07-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2002","exhibitionTitle":"American Anthem","exhibitionEndDate":"2003"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Monday, June 6, 1988 - Friday, October 14, 1988","exhibitionEndISODate":"1988-10-14","exhibitionID":"365","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1988-06-06","exhibitionBeginDate":"1988","exhibitionTitle":"City Folk","exhibitionEndDate":"1988"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"28 x 60 \"Frame: 32 x 64 1/8 \" (81.3 x 162.9 cm)"}}]}