{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3207"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Chapman Kelley"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1969"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2003    21    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2003.21.1"},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Gavin Ashworth"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Colored pencil (accounting pencil) and pencil on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Huntsville"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2892/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2892"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Devil House"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Huntsville"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Drawing","Some communities are unexpected, such as the community that evolves from prison life. Prison systems develop into places where prisoners are both colleagues and adversaries to one another, where relationships are established based on power, love, money, and time. Within the environment of prison life, unlikely artistic expressions have flowered over time and over cultures. Tattooing is perhaps the most commonly known artistic expression in prison life, but there are numerous examples of more fully developed arts, which are often allowed to mature in the gray environment of incarceration.  In 1964, Frank Jones was serving a life sentence for murder in Huntsville, Texas, when he salvaged red and blue accountants\u2019 pencil stubs from the garbage and recycled discarded paper from the prison office where he worked. He rather quickly developed his singular forms and palette and subjects, architectural structures constructed from barbed-wire-like shapes drawn in red and blue. He called them \u201cdevil houses\u201d and peopled them with \u201chaints,\u201d or ghosts, also clothed in the same red and blue barbed-wire motif that defines every Frank Jones drawing. Each creature smiles, so as, in the artist\u2019s words, \u201cto get you to come closer\u2026.to drag you down and make you do bad things.\u201d Some of his drawings recall the architecture of the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Communal codes of prison life, the clock, the cell, the barbed wire, the inhuman creatures, are evident everywhere. Jones signed many of his drawings with only his prison number, further marking the community and the culture from which this artwork was born. Brooke Davis Anderson, \"Devil House,\" 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":["Works on Paper","eMuseum - Collection Highlights"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Huntsville"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154404"},"geographyState":{"value":"Texas"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"412","content":"Frank Albert Jones"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Drawing","Some communities are unexpected, such as the community that evolves from prison life. Prison systems develop into places where prisoners are both colleagues and adversaries to one another, where relationships are established based on power, love, money, and time. Within the environment of prison life, unlikely artistic expressions have flowered over time and over cultures. Tattooing is perhaps the most commonly known artistic expression in prison life, but there are numerous examples of more fully developed arts, which are often allowed to mature in the gray environment of incarceration.  In 1964, Frank Jones was serving a life sentence for murder in Huntsville, Texas, when he salvaged red and blue accountants\u2019 pencil stubs from the garbage and recycled discarded paper from the prison office where he worked. He rather quickly developed his singular forms and palette and subjects, architectural structures constructed from barbed-wire-like shapes drawn in red and blue. He called them \u201cdevil houses\u201d and peopled them with \u201chaints,\u201d or ghosts, also clothed in the same red and blue barbed-wire motif that defines every Frank Jones drawing. Each creature smiles, so as, in the artist\u2019s words, \u201cto get you to come closer\u2026.to drag you down and make you do bad things.\u201d Some of his drawings recall the architecture of the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Communal codes of prison life, the clock, the cell, the barbed wire, the inhuman creatures, are evident everywhere. Jones signed many of his drawings with only his prison number, further marking the community and the culture from which this artwork was born. Brooke Davis Anderson, \"Devil House,\" 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":"1960"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1960\u20131969"},"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":"Friday, April 12, 2024 - Sunday, May 25, 2025","exhibitionEndISODate":"2025-05-25","exhibitionID":"257","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2024-04-12","exhibitionBeginDate":"2024","exhibitionTitle":"Somewhere to Roost","exhibitionEndDate":"2025"},{"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":"Sheet: 25 x 38 \""}}]}