{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3472"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"© Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1988"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2006    20    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2006.20.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Pen, ink, crayon, and watercolor on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Sandersville"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4172/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4172"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Untitled"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Sandersville"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["During his life, John Bunion (J. B.) Murray, who could neither read nor write, worked the land and earned his living on different plantations. Art historian Judith McWillie, who interviewed the artist, reported that he began writing a non-semantic script on adding machine tape, wallboard, and stationery after he experienced a vision from God, when he was approximately seventy years old. Murray described the process as such: \u201cHe uses my fingers. I can\u2019t use them on my own. It\u2019s the language of the Holy Spirit direct from God. . . . And when I left, the eagle crossed my eye\u2014it shades the sun. That was a spiritual eagle. You know an eagle can see farther than any bird in the world and that\u2019s why that I can see things some more folks can\u2019t see. . . . And the Lord sent a vision from the sun. Everything I see is from the sun.\u201d His paintings exhibit traces of superimposed layers of letters, signs, lines, and sometimes figures he called \u201cthe evil people, the ones that are dry tongued, that don\u2019t know God.\u201d The surface of his artworks looks like the distorted reflection in a rippled stretch of water. Interestingly, he confided: \u201cLord give me a mind of what the water say. . . . Water saves. You can\u2019t hinder water. Water will soak down and come up in another place. . . . So the Lord is strong. You can\u2019t back him up. . . . And He spoke with water.\u201dValérie Rousseau, \u201cUntitled,\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. 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","During his life, John Bunion (J. B.) Murray, who could neither read nor write, worked the land and earned his living on different plantations. Art historian Judith McWillie, who interviewed the artist, reported that he began writing a non-semantic script on adding machine tape, wallboard, and stationery after he experienced a vision from God, when he was approximately seventy years old. Murray described the process as such: \u201cHe uses my fingers. I can\u2019t use them on my own. It\u2019s the language of the Holy Spirit direct from God. . . . And when I left, the eagle crossed my eye\u2014it shades the sun. That was a spiritual eagle. You know an eagle can see farther than any bird in the world and that\u2019s why that I can see things some more folks can\u2019t see. . . . And the Lord sent a vision from the sun. Everything I see is from the sun.\u201d His paintings exhibit traces of superimposed layers of letters, signs, lines, and sometimes figures he called \u201cthe evil people, the ones that are dry tongued, that don\u2019t know God.\u201d The surface of his artworks looks like the distorted reflection in a rippled stretch of water. Interestingly, he confided: \u201cLord give me a mind of what the water say. . . . Water saves. You can\u2019t hinder water. Water will soak down and come up in another place. . . . So the Lord is strong. You can\u2019t back him up. . . . 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Murray described the process as such: \u201cHe uses my fingers. I can\u2019t use them on my own. It\u2019s the language of the Holy Spirit direct from God. . . . And when I left, the eagle crossed my eye\u2014it shades the sun. That was a spiritual eagle. You know an eagle can see farther than any bird in the world and that\u2019s why that I can see things some more folks can\u2019t see. . . . And the Lord sent a vision from the sun. Everything I see is from the sun.\u201d His paintings exhibit traces of superimposed layers of letters, signs, lines, and sometimes figures he called \u201cthe evil people, the ones that are dry tongued, that don\u2019t know God.\u201d The surface of his artworks looks like the distorted reflection in a rippled stretch of water. Interestingly, he confided: \u201cLord give me a mind of what the water say. . . . Water saves. You can\u2019t hinder water. Water will soak down and come up in another place. . . . So the Lord is strong. You can\u2019t back him up. . . . And He spoke with water.\u201dValérie Rousseau, \u201cUntitled,\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. 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","During his life, John Bunion (J. B.) Murray, who could neither read nor write, worked the land and earned his living on different plantations. Art historian Judith McWillie, who interviewed the artist, reported that he began writing a non-semantic script on adding machine tape, wallboard, and stationery after he experienced a vision from God, when he was approximately seventy years old. Murray described the process as such: \u201cHe uses my fingers. I can\u2019t use them on my own. It\u2019s the language of the Holy Spirit direct from God. . . . And when I left, the eagle crossed my eye\u2014it shades the sun. That was a spiritual eagle. You know an eagle can see farther than any bird in the world and that\u2019s why that I can see things some more folks can\u2019t see. . . . And the Lord sent a vision from the sun. Everything I see is from the sun.\u201d His paintings exhibit traces of superimposed layers of letters, signs, lines, and sometimes figures he called \u201cthe evil people, the ones that are dry tongued, that don\u2019t know God.\u201d The surface of his artworks looks like the distorted reflection in a rippled stretch of water. Interestingly, he confided: \u201cLord give me a mind of what the water say. . . . Water saves. You can\u2019t hinder water. Water will soak down and come up in another place. . . . So the Lord is strong. You can\u2019t back him up. . . . 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