{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"2503"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Blanchard-Hill Collection, gift of M. Anne Hill and Edward V. Blanchard, Jr."},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1985"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1998    10   14"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1998.10.14"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paint on wood with rubber ears"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Waverly"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2769/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2769"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Beast"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Waverly"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["SCULPTURE","\u201cYou may know your business, but no one else will if you don\u2019t advertise,\u201d Miles Carpenter at one time opined. Carpenter advertised his roadside ice, soda-pop, and vegetable stand in Waverly, Virginia, by creating a menagerie of idiosyncratic, funky, and humorous sculptures of animals and people. Both an additive and subtractive sculptor (he constructed as well as carved his work), Carpenter explored a variety of methods and modes of working for nearly thirty years in order to achieve his artistic goals. The result is a range of expressions, from realistic carved renderings of watermelons to wild and outlandish root sculptures. Using roots as the basic understructure for sculpture is actually quite common for self-taught artists, though the intentions, motivations, and reasons for using roots is wide and varied. This ambitious \u201croot monster\u201d is humorous and dynamic. Most museum visitors have learned how Michelangelo, a carver in stone, allowed the material to bring out the figure hidden inside. Miles Carpenter seems to echo this process, once recalling, \u201cThere\u2019s something in there, under the surface of every piece of wood. You don\u2019t need no design \u2018cause it\u2019s right there, you just take the bark off, and if you do it good, you can find something.\u201dBrooke Davis Anderson, \"Beast,\" exhibition label for Folk Art Revealed. Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2004.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"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Three Dimensional Works"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Waverly"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"153917"},"geographyState":{"value":"Virginia"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"828","content":"Miles B. Carpenter"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Sculpture"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["SCULPTURE","\u201cYou may know your business, but no one else will if you don\u2019t advertise,\u201d Miles Carpenter at one time opined. Carpenter advertised his roadside ice, soda-pop, and vegetable stand in Waverly, Virginia, by creating a menagerie of idiosyncratic, funky, and humorous sculptures of animals and people. Both an additive and subtractive sculptor (he constructed as well as carved his work), Carpenter explored a variety of methods and modes of working for nearly thirty years in order to achieve his artistic goals. The result is a range of expressions, from realistic carved renderings of watermelons to wild and outlandish root sculptures. Using roots as the basic understructure for sculpture is actually quite common for self-taught artists, though the intentions, motivations, and reasons for using roots is wide and varied. This ambitious \u201croot monster\u201d is humorous and dynamic. Most museum visitors have learned how Michelangelo, a carver in stone, allowed the material to bring out the figure hidden inside. Miles Carpenter seems to echo this process, once recalling, \u201cThere\u2019s something in there, under the surface of every piece of wood. You don\u2019t need no design \u2018cause it\u2019s right there, you just take the bark off, and if you do it good, you can find something.\u201dBrooke Davis Anderson, \"Beast,\" exhibition label for Folk Art Revealed. Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2004.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"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1966"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1966\u20131985"},"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":"Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Sunday, September 5, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-09-05","exhibitionID":"147","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2009-10-06","exhibitionBeginDate":"2009","exhibitionTitle":"Approaching Abstraction","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"26 x 39 1/2 x 33 \""}}]}