{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4147"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1989"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2008    24    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2008.24.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Enamel and printed matter on Masonite"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Columbus"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4024/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4024"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Untitled"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Columbus"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["\u201cWhen I\u2019ll die, my painting will die with me,\u201d declared William L. Hawkins\u2014a statement that exemplifies how the creative act becomes inseparable from the individual. This artwork, created a year before Hawkins\u2019s death, offers a spiritual experience of disembodiment and elevation. Our eyes travel in a clockwise loop from the buildings at the top\u2014which gradually lose their weight and materiality to become ghostly skeletons\u2014swoop down through the verticality of the trees, and finally fly over peaceful landscapes and reach the sky.Valérie Rousseau, \"Untitled,\" 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","reviewed for the IMLS Neurodiversity Project by Art Bridges Fellow Austin Losada 2026."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Columbus"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154855"},"geographyState":{"value":"Ohio"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"lower right: 'KY JULY271895'bottom edge: 'WILLAM.L.HAWKINS.BORN'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1199","content":"William L. Hawkins"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["\u201cWhen I\u2019ll die, my painting will die with me,\u201d declared William L. Hawkins\u2014a statement that exemplifies how the creative act becomes inseparable from the individual. This artwork, created a year before Hawkins\u2019s death, offers a spiritual experience of disembodiment and elevation. Our eyes travel in a clockwise loop from the buildings at the top\u2014which gradually lose their weight and materiality to become ghostly skeletons\u2014swoop down through the verticality of the trees, and finally fly over peaceful landscapes and reach the sky.Valérie Rousseau, \"Untitled,\" 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","reviewed for the IMLS Neurodiversity Project by Art Bridges Fellow Austin Losada 2026."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1989"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1989"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Sunday, September 5, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-09-05","exhibitionID":"147","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2009-10-06","exhibitionBeginDate":"2009","exhibitionTitle":"Approaching Abstraction","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"},{"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, 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"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"50 1/2 × 62 1/4\""}}]}