{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3999"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"P1.2001.251"},"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":"1839"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   36"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.36"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Executed in brilliantly-colored yellow, red, blue, and black  watercolor on paper with paired birds and stylized angels in  the upper register and figures of two stylized ladies in the  lower register each wearing a striped dress and blue hat, at center a heart inscribed with a religious text rendered in alternating lines of red and black ornamental German calligraphy. fraktur"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3920/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"3920"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Religious Text with Two Women in Striped Dresses"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["\"...catalogued as 'Schwenkfelder' and by M.  Gottschall....However, the Gottschalls were Mennonites, not Schwenkfelders, though they lived among the Schwenkfelder in Montgomery County\" (MAD)","Fraktur was often made as a gift or reward from a teacher to a student. Although the incentive for this religious text is not known, the inscription speaks of a beautiful child and God\u2019s love. Samuel Gottschall was the eighth son in a family of Mennonite schoolteachers and fraktur artists in Pennsylvania. His father, Bishop Jacob Gottschall, taught at two of the oldest Mennonite meetinghouse schools in Skippack and Franconia before opening his own school on his farm in Franconia Township. Fraktur writing and painting styles were often generational, passed from teacher to student. Jacob Gottschall was influenced by his schoolmaster, Johann Adam Eyer, when he introduced confrontal, elongated peacocks into an original composition. He in turn influenced his son Samuel, who continued to develop the theme of prideful peacocks in this drawing, which is anchored by two fashionably dressed women, referring to the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins (Matthew 25:1\u201313). Samuel\u2019s fraktur drawings are more powerfully colorful, stylized, and simplified than his father\u2019s, stripped of decorative filler in the background, but they still include many of the same motifs, such as the small faces known as \u201cSophia\u201d faces, symbolizing wisdom.This is one of more than six related fraktur on this theme created during the years 1833\u20131836, when Gottschall was teaching in his family\u2019s school. Also a weaver, he abandoned both activities in favor of establishing a grist mill and later a clover mill.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cReligious Text with Two Women in Striped Dresses,\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"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Beatrice B. Garvan and Charles F. Hummel, The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts 1683-1850 (Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1982), fig. 32           Pennsylvania German Fraktur, Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, figs. 168, 215, 733.           Sandra Wilmot, \"More Than Just Hearts and Flowers,\" Americana, vol. 10, no. 4 (September/October 1982), 31.     Maine Antiques Digest (December 1980), 32A                  \"Sotheby's Wetzel Sale: A $3.2 Million House Sale,\" Maine Antique Digest, December 1980, 32-A"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154774"},"geographyState":{"value":"Pennsylvania"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1822","content":"Samuel Gottschall"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Books/Manuscripts/Information Artifacts"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["\"...catalogued as 'Schwenkfelder' and by M.  Gottschall....However, the Gottschalls were Mennonites, not Schwenkfelders, though they lived among the Schwenkfelder in Montgomery County\" (MAD)","Fraktur was often made as a gift or reward from a teacher to a student. Although the incentive for this religious text is not known, the inscription speaks of a beautiful child and God\u2019s love. Samuel Gottschall was the eighth son in a family of Mennonite schoolteachers and fraktur artists in Pennsylvania. His father, Bishop Jacob Gottschall, taught at two of the oldest Mennonite meetinghouse schools in Skippack and Franconia before opening his own school on his farm in Franconia Township. Fraktur writing and painting styles were often generational, passed from teacher to student. Jacob Gottschall was influenced by his schoolmaster, Johann Adam Eyer, when he introduced confrontal, elongated peacocks into an original composition. He in turn influenced his son Samuel, who continued to develop the theme of prideful peacocks in this drawing, which is anchored by two fashionably dressed women, referring to the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins (Matthew 25:1\u201313). Samuel\u2019s fraktur drawings are more powerfully colorful, stylized, and simplified than his father\u2019s, stripped of decorative filler in the background, but they still include many of the same motifs, such as the small faces known as \u201cSophia\u201d faces, symbolizing wisdom.This is one of more than six related fraktur on this theme created during the years 1833\u20131836, when Gottschall was teaching in his family\u2019s school. Also a weaver, he abandoned both activities in favor of establishing a grist mill and later a clover mill.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cReligious Text with Two Women in Striped Dresses,\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"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1829"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"German inscription; Translation: \"When I see a beautiful girl, to whom God has given so much beauty, I have to think: God who could create out of nothing so many beautiful things must be much greater than we can imagine.  Who loves Jesus must love the One who will take you into heaven.\""},"culture":{"label":"Culture","value":"Pennsylvania German"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1834"},"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":"Friday, January 21, 2022 - Monday, September 5, 2022","exhibitionEndISODate":"2022-09-05","exhibitionID":"251","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2022-01-21","exhibitionBeginDate":"2022","exhibitionTitle":"MULTITUDES","exhibitionEndDate":"2022"},{"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":"Monday, July 22, 2019 - Friday, January 10, 2020","exhibitionEndISODate":"2020-01-10","exhibitionID":"235","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2019-07-22","exhibitionBeginDate":"2019","exhibitionTitle":"A Piece of Yourself","exhibitionEndDate":"2020"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - Sunday, January 3, 2021","exhibitionEndISODate":"2021-01-03","exhibitionID":"239","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2020-02-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2020","exhibitionTitle":"American Perspectives","exhibitionEndDate":"2021"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"P1.2001.251"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 12 1/4 x 8 \" (31.1 x 20.3 cm)Frame: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 1 \" (48.9 x 39.4 x 2.5 cm)"}}]}