{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4015"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":["2013.24.10","P1.2001.24A"]},"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":"1832"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     1   10"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.1.10"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper with applied gold foil"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Lowell"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4843/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4843"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Josiah C. Burnham"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Lowell"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Portrait of a man in frontal pose, face delineated in pencil, wearing black suit with black stock and white vest, [p] right arm draped over chair back, holding open music book in [p] right hand.","Self-taught artists proliferated during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man, much to the chagrin of some critical writers who deplored these \u201ccheap workmen\u201d who afforded portraits to average Americans interested in demonstrating culture by adorning their walls and mantels with art. Dr. Samuel Addison Shute and Ruth Whittier Shute were among the artists whose affordable watercolor portraits captured a segment of society whose faces and lives might otherwise be unknown today. They began their unusual artistic partnership soon after they were married in 1827. Their respective roles in this collaboration are indicated on some portraits by the inscription \u201cDrawn by R. W. Shute / and / Painted by S. A. Shute.\u201d Most of the watercolors feature vigorous diagonal or horizontal strokes in the background. The Shutes also employed a number of unusual techniques and materials in their work. Watercolors were supplemented with pastel, gouache, pencil, collage, and gum arabic; areas of paper were even left blank to suggest transparency and other effects.The small scale of the Burnham portraits is highly unusual; the Shutes typically worked on large-format paper. Ruth Shute may have known the Burnhams from her hometown of Dover, New Hampshire, where the Burnhams were married in 1827. Their families were further associated through Josiah Burnham\u2019s work as a spinner at the Cocheco Mill in Dover, which was built on land owned by Ruth\u2019s father. They may also have shared activities relating to music, as Josiah chose to include a music book in his portrait and it is known that Ruth was a musician.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cJosiah C. Burnham/Abigail S. Burnham,\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":"Lowell"},"pubreferences":{"label":"Published References","value":"Helen Kellogg, \"Found: Two Lost Painters,\" Antiques World, Volume I, Number 2 (December 1978) 43.                      Jean Lipman and Tom Armstrong, eds., American Folk Painters of Three Centuries (New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980) 168."},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154783"},"geographyState":{"value":"Massachusetts"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":[{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"2049","content":"Samuel A. Shute"},{"displayOrder":"2","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1024","content":"Ruth W. Shute"}]},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Portrait of a man in frontal pose, face delineated in pencil, wearing black suit with black stock and white vest, [p] right arm draped over chair back, holding open music book in [p] right hand.","Self-taught artists proliferated during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man, much to the chagrin of some critical writers who deplored these \u201ccheap workmen\u201d who afforded portraits to average Americans interested in demonstrating culture by adorning their walls and mantels with art. Dr. Samuel Addison Shute and Ruth Whittier Shute were among the artists whose affordable watercolor portraits captured a segment of society whose faces and lives might otherwise be unknown today. They began their unusual artistic partnership soon after they were married in 1827. Their respective roles in this collaboration are indicated on some portraits by the inscription \u201cDrawn by R. W. Shute / and / Painted by S. A. Shute.\u201d Most of the watercolors feature vigorous diagonal or horizontal strokes in the background. The Shutes also employed a number of unusual techniques and materials in their work. Watercolors were supplemented with pastel, gouache, pencil, collage, and gum arabic; areas of paper were even left blank to suggest transparency and other effects.The small scale of the Burnham portraits is highly unusual; the Shutes typically worked on large-format paper. Ruth Shute may have known the Burnhams from her hometown of Dover, New Hampshire, where the Burnhams were married in 1827. Their families were further associated through Josiah Burnham\u2019s work as a spinner at the Cocheco Mill in Dover, which was built on land owned by Ruth\u2019s father. They may also have shared activities relating to music, as Josiah chose to include a music book in his portrait and it is known that Ruth was a musician.Stacy C. Hollander, \u201cJosiah C. Burnham/Abigail S. Burnham,\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":"1831"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"Music book inscribed, pen and ink: HEBRON. L.M.| WARD L.M.  Thus far the Lord hath / led me on."},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1831\u20131832"},"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":"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"}]},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":["2013.24.10","P1.2001.24A"]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 \" (34.3 x 24.1 cm)Frame: 20 7/8 x 27 1/2 x 1 1/2 \" (53 x 69.9 x 3.8 cm)"}}]}