{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3048"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift from the Mendelsohn Collection"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1994"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2002    20    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2002.20.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paint on wood with wood putty, glitter, found objects, marbles, and beads"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Alcoa"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2856/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2856"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Faces of Africa II"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Alcoa"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Mythologies of the world honor trees as ancient entities that view the passage of the ages in patient wisdom. Artists, writers, and healers have always shown an especial sensitivity to the life force that is present in trees, whether benign or hostile, and have attempted to activate that vitality through interventions in tree, root, or branch. There is a particularly strong tradition of such activations in African art, and it is this ancestry that artist Bessie Harvey consciously strove to release in her powerful root sculptures: \u201cI have a feeling for Africa. I see African people in the trees and in the roots. I talk to the trees. There\u2019s souls in the branches and roots. I frees them.\u201d Harvey began her artmaking in the 1970s, when she was struggling to raise eleven children as a single parent. The transformational aspect of these root sculptures is apparent in this late work, one of a group of three related sculptures created in the last year of the artist\u2019s life. Stacy C. Hollander, \"Faces of Africa II,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.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","Sculpture and Three Dimensional Objects"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Three Dimensional Works"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Alcoa"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154293"},"geographyState":{"value":"Tennessee"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"184","content":"Bessie Harvey"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Sculpture"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Mythologies of the world honor trees as ancient entities that view the passage of the ages in patient wisdom. Artists, writers, and healers have always shown an especial sensitivity to the life force that is present in trees, whether benign or hostile, and have attempted to activate that vitality through interventions in tree, root, or branch. There is a particularly strong tradition of such activations in African art, and it is this ancestry that artist Bessie Harvey consciously strove to release in her powerful root sculptures: \u201cI have a feeling for Africa. I see African people in the trees and in the roots. I talk to the trees. There\u2019s souls in the branches and roots. I frees them.\u201d Harvey began her artmaking in the 1970s, when she was struggling to raise eleven children as a single parent. The transformational aspect of these root sculptures is apparent in this late work, one of a group of three related sculptures created in the last year of the artist\u2019s life. Stacy C. Hollander, \"Faces of Africa II,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.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","Sculpture and Three Dimensional Objects"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1994"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1994"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Sunday, September 2, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-09-02","exhibitionID":"149","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-01-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"JUBILATION an act of rejoicing | RUMINATION an act of contemplation","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"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"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"31 × 34 × 12\""}}]}