{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3315"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ellen Sugarman in loving memory of her mother Dorothy Frank, the artist"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1973"},"labelText":{"label":"Label Text","value":""},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2005     3    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2005.3.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"quilt"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Silk, cotton, and crewel embroidery on silk with lace, feathers, sequins, metallic thread, and fabrics"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Syracuse"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/19285/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"19285"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Dorothy's World"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Syracuse"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Dorothy Frank was 90-years old when this artwork was discovered\u2014at long last\u2014in a corner of a crawl space that had once been her sewing room. Though living with Alzheimer\u2019s, Frank was quick to identify the work as her own, exclaiming: \"I made it,\" as the quilt was unwrapped from the sheet that protected it for so many years. Her daughter Ellen Sugarman recalled that in the mid-1960s, Frank began spending a significant amount of time in her room with the door closed. In 1968, she revealed Dorothy\u2019s World, an elaborate composition comprised of a multitude of stitches and surprising assemblage of lace, feathers, sequins, and other mixed media, that was entered and accepted into a traveling quilt exhibition.Today, little is known about the embroidered motifs of Dorothy\u2019s World, but much can be speculated. Sugarman suspects that the sizable figure in the upper right of the composition represents Frank\u2019s mother Gussie, a Russian-born matriarch who raised 13 children and lived to age 102. She is pictured here with piercing eyes and hair worn high on her head, framed by a sun and field of glittering stars. To Gussie\u2019s lower-left is a charmingly rendered and accessorized Victorian mother and child. An illustration from a story? Or imaginative representation of Gussie and young Dorothy perhaps? And, to their right a Siamese cat\u2014one of Frank\u2019s adored \"kitties.\" She had a clear fondness for animals as well as birds. A veritable menagerie decorates the piece, including a peacock, chickens, butterfly, turtle, elephant, and other fantastic beasts. Throughout, Frank\u2019s Russian heritage interweaves with folktales, biblical messages, and scenes from the artist\u2019s everyday life and wildest dreams.Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, Self-Taught Genius Gallery, July 16 \u2013 October 3, 2018.","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","Textiles","This ethereal, shimmery textile was created in private over a period of three or four years without the knowledge of the artist\u2019s family. Stitched freehand on silk, the embroidered lines meander across the surface as spontaneously as the artist\u2019s memories and thoughts. In 1968, the work was entered in a quilt contest; it earned a prize and toured the country with the other contest winners. Dorothy Frank described the textile as a history of her family, and certain figures can be identified, such as her Russian mother, Gussie, who lived to the age of 102. The artist incorporated recycled objects into the textile, including a pink paper parasol, and created delightful details such as the tiny beaded purse that actually opens. After it was lost for many years, the artist\u2019s daughter found the textile in a crawl space in her mother\u2019s old sewing room. It was wrapped in a sheet and hidden behind an accumulation of trash bags filled with laces, fabrics, and unfinished sewing projects."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Textiles"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Syracuse"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154487"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"308","content":"Dorothy Yaffe Frank"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Textiles"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Dorothy Frank was 90-years old when this artwork was discovered\u2014at long last\u2014in a corner of a crawl space that had once been her sewing room. Though living with Alzheimer\u2019s, Frank was quick to identify the work as her own, exclaiming: \"I made it,\" as the quilt was unwrapped from the sheet that protected it for so many years. Her daughter Ellen Sugarman recalled that in the mid-1960s, Frank began spending a significant amount of time in her room with the door closed. In 1968, she revealed Dorothy\u2019s World, an elaborate composition comprised of a multitude of stitches and surprising assemblage of lace, feathers, sequins, and other mixed media, that was entered and accepted into a traveling quilt exhibition.Today, little is known about the embroidered motifs of Dorothy\u2019s World, but much can be speculated. Sugarman suspects that the sizable figure in the upper right of the composition represents Frank\u2019s mother Gussie, a Russian-born matriarch who raised 13 children and lived to age 102. She is pictured here with piercing eyes and hair worn high on her head, framed by a sun and field of glittering stars. To Gussie\u2019s lower-left is a charmingly rendered and accessorized Victorian mother and child. An illustration from a story? Or imaginative representation of Gussie and young Dorothy perhaps? And, to their right a Siamese cat\u2014one of Frank\u2019s adored \"kitties.\" She had a clear fondness for animals as well as birds. A veritable menagerie decorates the piece, including a peacock, chickens, butterfly, turtle, elephant, and other fantastic beasts. Throughout, Frank\u2019s Russian heritage interweaves with folktales, biblical messages, and scenes from the artist\u2019s everyday life and wildest dreams.Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, Self-Taught Genius Gallery, July 16 \u2013 October 3, 2018.","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","Textiles","This ethereal, shimmery textile was created in private over a period of three or four years without the knowledge of the artist\u2019s family. Stitched freehand on silk, the embroidered lines meander across the surface as spontaneously as the artist\u2019s memories and thoughts. In 1968, the work was entered in a quilt contest; it earned a prize and toured the country with the other contest winners. Dorothy Frank described the textile as a history of her family, and certain figures can be identified, such as her Russian mother, Gussie, who lived to the age of 102. The artist incorporated recycled objects into the textile, including a pink paper parasol, and created delightful details such as the tiny beaded purse that actually opens. After it was lost for many years, the artist\u2019s daughter found the textile in a crawl space in her mother\u2019s old sewing room. It was wrapped in a sheet and hidden behind an accumulation of trash bags filled with laces, fabrics, and unfinished sewing projects."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1963"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1968"},"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":"Monday, July 16, 2018 - Wednesday, October 3, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-10-03","exhibitionID":"226","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2018-07-16","exhibitionBeginDate":"2018","exhibitionTitle":"Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, March 16, 2023 - Sunday, October 29, 2023","exhibitionEndISODate":"2023-10-29","exhibitionID":"248","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2023-03-16","exhibitionBeginDate":"2023","exhibitionTitle":"What That Quilt Knows About Me","exhibitionEndDate":"2023"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"88 × 43\""}}]}