{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3949"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.58"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1848"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   21"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.21"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on wood panel"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"New York"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3439/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3439"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Situation of America, 1848."},"geographyCity":{"value":"New York"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Flowering: From the Squire Phillips house, Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. The paddlewheeler \"Sun\" was built in 1836 and dismantled in 1861, taken most likely from Brooklyn across the East River.","This overmantel captures an optimistic and robust picture of the United States as epitomized by New York\u2019s success mid-century. It celebrates the strong economic ties between consumer and producer, and the means of connecting those markets. Economic growth was greatly spurred by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and subsequent improvements in overland rail transport. A wide variety of goods flooded into New York along these arteries and was then distributed throughout the country. The architectural density of the skyline as viewed across the East River from Brooklyn is juxtaposed with billows of smoke from the paddle wheeler Sun (built in 1836 with New York as its home port) and the freight train on the wharf. The dome of City Hall looms disproportionately large behind the prominent warehouse situated on the Brooklyn dock.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Situation of America, 1848.,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.","Overmantels, decorative panels set above the home\u2019s central hearth, present some of the earliest landscapes painted in America. Such works of art were complicit in presenting a picture of bright optimism for America\u2019s citizens, and also for visitors from abroad who flocked to observe America and Americans. In their letters home, some nineteenth-century visitors described how they were struck by the brightness of the climate and the freshness of the paint on colorful houses that lined the streets of cities like New York.The overriding focus of this overmantel, which may have adorned a fireplace in the Squire Phillips home in Brookhaven, Long Island, is progress. It depicts the New York City skyline from the Brooklyn docks across the East River. Plumes of steam issue from the paddlewheeler Sun and the freight train hauling goods between producers in America\u2019s heartland and the New York waterfront, a major distribution point for export to foreign markets. Historically, the situation of America in 1848 included such seminal events as the addition of Wisconsin as the thirtieth state, the discovery of gold in California at Sutter\u2019s Mill, and enormous land expansions in the Southwest at the conclusion of the Mexican\u2013American War.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cSituation of America, 1848.,\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","In their letters home, some nineteenth-century visitors to America described how they were struck by the brightness of the climate and the freshness of the paint on colorful houses that lined the streets of cities like New York. This overmantel captures an optimistic and robust picture of the United States as epitomized by New York\u2019s success in mid-century. It celebrates the strong economic ties between consumer and producer, and the means of connecting those markets. Economic growth was greatly spurred by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and subsequent improvements in overland rail transport. A wide variety of goods flooded into New York City along these arteries and were then distributed throughout the country. The architectural muscularity of the skyline as viewed across the East River from Brooklyn is juxtaposed with billows of smoke from the paddle wheeler Sun (built in 1836 with New York as its home port) and the freight train on the wharf. The dome of City Hall looms disproportionately large behind the prominent warehouse situated on the Brooklyn dock."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"New York"},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Young America: A Folk Art History.  Jean Lipman, Elizabeth V. Warren and Robert Bishop.  New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1986, illustrated fig. 5.13, p.90-91                              Five-Star Folk Art: One Hundred American Masterpieces. Jean Lipman, Robert Bishop, Elizabeth V. Warren and Sharon L. Eisenstat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1990, ill. #31, p. 67.The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876.  Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester.  New York: Viking Press, 1974, ill. #256.                                                       Treasures of American Folk Art/Museum of American Folk Art.  Lee Kogan, Barbara Cate, 1994."},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154760"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Flowering: From the Squire Phillips house, Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. The paddlewheeler \"Sun\" was built in 1836 and dismantled in 1861, taken most likely from Brooklyn across the East River.","This overmantel captures an optimistic and robust picture of the United States as epitomized by New York\u2019s success mid-century. It celebrates the strong economic ties between consumer and producer, and the means of connecting those markets. Economic growth was greatly spurred by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and subsequent improvements in overland rail transport. A wide variety of goods flooded into New York along these arteries and was then distributed throughout the country. The architectural density of the skyline as viewed across the East River from Brooklyn is juxtaposed with billows of smoke from the paddle wheeler Sun (built in 1836 with New York as its home port) and the freight train on the wharf. The dome of City Hall looms disproportionately large behind the prominent warehouse situated on the Brooklyn dock.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Situation of America, 1848.,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.","Overmantels, decorative panels set above the home\u2019s central hearth, present some of the earliest landscapes painted in America. Such works of art were complicit in presenting a picture of bright optimism for America\u2019s citizens, and also for visitors from abroad who flocked to observe America and Americans. In their letters home, some nineteenth-century visitors described how they were struck by the brightness of the climate and the freshness of the paint on colorful houses that lined the streets of cities like New York.The overriding focus of this overmantel, which may have adorned a fireplace in the Squire Phillips home in Brookhaven, Long Island, is progress. It depicts the New York City skyline from the Brooklyn docks across the East River. Plumes of steam issue from the paddlewheeler Sun and the freight train hauling goods between producers in America\u2019s heartland and the New York waterfront, a major distribution point for export to foreign markets. Historically, the situation of America in 1848 included such seminal events as the addition of Wisconsin as the thirtieth state, the discovery of gold in California at Sutter\u2019s Mill, and enormous land expansions in the Southwest at the conclusion of the Mexican\u2013American War.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cSituation of America, 1848.,\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","In their letters home, some nineteenth-century visitors to America described how they were struck by the brightness of the climate and the freshness of the paint on colorful houses that lined the streets of cities like New York. This overmantel captures an optimistic and robust picture of the United States as epitomized by New York\u2019s success in mid-century. It celebrates the strong economic ties between consumer and producer, and the means of connecting those markets. Economic growth was greatly spurred by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and subsequent improvements in overland rail transport. A wide variety of goods flooded into New York City along these arteries and were then distributed throughout the country. The architectural muscularity of the skyline as viewed across the East River from Brooklyn is juxtaposed with billows of smoke from the paddle wheeler Sun (built in 1836 with New York as its home port) and the freight train on the wharf. The dome of City Hall looms disproportionately large behind the prominent warehouse situated on the Brooklyn dock."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1848"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"Across bottom, shadow roman letters, all caps: SITUATION OF AMERICA, 1848."},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1848"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, September 13, 1990 - Sunday, December 2, 1990","exhibitionEndISODate":"1990-12-02","exhibitionID":"1","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1990-09-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"1990","exhibitionTitle":"Five-Star Folk Art","exhibitionEndDate":"1990"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, January 21, 2022 - Sunday, January 29, 2023","exhibitionEndISODate":"2023-01-29","exhibitionID":"252","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2022-01-21","exhibitionBeginDate":"2022","exhibitionTitle":"Pushing Boundaries","exhibitionEndDate":"2023"},{"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":"Saturday, September 14, 1996 - Sunday, January 5, 1997","exhibitionEndISODate":"1997-01-05","exhibitionID":"81","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-09-14","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"A Place for Us","exhibitionEndDate":"1997"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, September 30, 1986 - Sunday, April 24, 1988","exhibitionEndISODate":"1988-04-24","exhibitionID":"115","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1986-09-30","exhibitionBeginDate":"1986","exhibitionTitle":"Young America","exhibitionEndDate":"1988"},{"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":"Thursday, April 13, 1989 - Sunday, July 16, 1989","exhibitionEndISODate":"1989-07-16","exhibitionID":"7","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1989-04-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"1989","exhibitionTitle":"Expressions of A New Spirit","exhibitionEndDate":"1989"},{"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":"Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - Sunday, June 2, 2002","exhibitionEndISODate":"2002-06-02","exhibitionID":"207","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2001-12-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2001","exhibitionTitle":"American Radiance","exhibitionEndDate":"2002"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, April 10, 2026 - Sunday, September 13, 2026","exhibitionEndISODate":"2027-02-28","exhibitionID":"445","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2026-04-10","exhibitionBeginDate":"2026","exhibitionTitle":"Folk Nation","exhibitionEndDate":"2027"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, March 15, 2019 - Sunday, July 28, 2019","exhibitionEndISODate":"2019-07-28","exhibitionID":"231","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2019-03-15","exhibitionBeginDate":"2019","exhibitionTitle":"Made in New York City","exhibitionEndDate":"2019"},{"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"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.58"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"34 x 58 1/8 x 1 3/8 \" (86.4 x 147.6 x 3.5 cm)"}}]}