{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3567"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of the artist"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"2007"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2007    18    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2007.18.1"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Ink on paper napkin"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3138/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3138"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3139/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3139"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Funeral for Titanic"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1696","content":"George Widener"}},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["The artworks of the high-functioning calendar savant George Widener are generally covered with inventories and patterned with piles of matching rubber-stamped dates, following an established cycle and infinite sequences. Vessels, megalopolises, and square grids are planned \u201cwith calendar dates, then it helps them improve,\u201d explained the artist. They structure his search \u201cto make order out of the chaos\u201d and somehow anticipate catastrophes. Many of his works immortalize tragedies. Widener notes that certain types of incidents have occurred on the same day of the week, and so that very day may engender similar incidents in the future. When Widener was a teenager, he came across a passenger list of the Titanic and discovered that one of the victims coincidentally shared his name. This large drawing translates his fascination for this history. Even though the ship sank on a Monday, here he emphasizes that it was \u201cmourned on Tuesday.\u201d Every Tuesday for seven hundred years, starting on April 16, 1912, is included by date; the number of Tuesdays approximately corresponds to the number of people rescued from the sinking ship.Valérie Rousseau, \u201cFuneral for Titanic,\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","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":"2007"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["The artworks of the high-functioning calendar savant George Widener are generally covered with inventories and patterned with piles of matching rubber-stamped dates, following an established cycle and infinite sequences. Vessels, megalopolises, and square grids are planned \u201cwith calendar dates, then it helps them improve,\u201d explained the artist. They structure his search \u201cto make order out of the chaos\u201d and somehow anticipate catastrophes. Many of his works immortalize tragedies. Widener notes that certain types of incidents have occurred on the same day of the week, and so that very day may engender similar incidents in the future. When Widener was a teenager, he came across a passenger list of the Titanic and discovered that one of the victims coincidentally shared his name. This large drawing translates his fascination for this history. Even though the ship sank on a Monday, here he emphasizes that it was \u201cmourned on Tuesday.\u201d Every Tuesday for seven hundred years, starting on April 16, 1912, is included by date; the number of Tuesdays approximately corresponds to the number of people rescued from the sinking ship.Valérie Rousseau, \u201cFuneral for Titanic,\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","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":""},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"2007"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - Sunday, August 17, 2014","exhibitionEndISODate":"2014-08-17","exhibitionID":"171","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2014-05-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"2014","exhibitionTitle":"Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2014"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - Sunday, October 7, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-10-07","exhibitionID":"151","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-06-20","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"COMPASS: Folk Art in Four Directions","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - Thursday, February 8, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-02-08","exhibitionID":"214","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2017-09-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"2017","exhibitionTitle":"Highlights from Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"}]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154677"},"geographyState":{"value":"Ohio"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 48 x 68 1/8 \""}}]}