{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"6956"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1970"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2018    19    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2018.19.1"},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Adam Reich"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Pencil and ballpoint pen on paperboard"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Del Rio"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/25945/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"25945"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Scrutinare"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Del Rio"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Object information is a work in progress andmay be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and theAmerican 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.","In addition to creating drawings, Consuelo (Chelo) González Amézcua made stone carvings and held poetry readings that included dancing and singing. Born in Mexico, she and her family moved northwest across the border to Del Rio, Texas, when she was ten years old. Her enthusiasm for mythology, music, and art was nurtured by her schoolteacher parents, who were also talented musicians and storytellers. Her condensed and fluid ballpoint pen drawings, which she called filigranas, evoke Mexican filigree jewelry and its arabesque patterns. This style also recalls the technique of paperolles (quilling)\u2014crowning achievements of patience created by nuns in monastic communities and used in modest churches to imitate the gold and silver watermarks of smiths. Chelo embraced an almost mediumistic process she described as \u201cmental recordatorio,\u201d or memory drawing, and did not make any preliminary sketches. After outlining the primary figures, she embellished her drawings with patterns often derived from pre-Hispanic architecture, Mexican embroidery, and Islamic, Egyptian, and classical motifs."]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Del Rio"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"156756"},"geographyState":{"value":"Texas"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"lower right: 'Original of Chelo / gonzalez Amezcua / 806 griner st. / Del Rio Texas / FiLigree ArT.'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"275","content":"Consuelo (Chelo) González Amézcua"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Object information is a work in progress andmay be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and theAmerican 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.","In addition to creating drawings, Consuelo (Chelo) González Amézcua made stone carvings and held poetry readings that included dancing and singing. Born in Mexico, she and her family moved northwest across the border to Del Rio, Texas, when she was ten years old. Her enthusiasm for mythology, music, and art was nurtured by her schoolteacher parents, who were also talented musicians and storytellers. Her condensed and fluid ballpoint pen drawings, which she called filigranas, evoke Mexican filigree jewelry and its arabesque patterns. This style also recalls the technique of paperolles (quilling)\u2014crowning achievements of patience created by nuns in monastic communities and used in modest churches to imitate the gold and silver watermarks of smiths. Chelo embraced an almost mediumistic process she described as \u201cmental recordatorio,\u201d or memory drawing, and did not make any preliminary sketches. After outlining the primary figures, she embellished her drawings with patterns often derived from pre-Hispanic architecture, Mexican embroidery, and Islamic, Egyptian, and classical motifs."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1970"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":"lower right: 'ScRuTinNARe'lower right: '12\u201314-70'verso upper left: 'Scrutinare in Filigree Art Original of Chelo González Amezcua / 806 Griner St. / Del Rio Texas 12\u201314\u201370'"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"December 14, 1970"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, March 17, 2023 - Sunday, October 29, 2023","exhibitionEndISODate":"2023-10-29","exhibitionID":"249","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2023-03-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2023","exhibitionTitle":"Material Witness","exhibitionEndDate":"2023"}},"curatorialRemarks":{"label":"Curatorial Remarks","value":""},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 27 1/8 x 21 1/8 \" (68.9 x 53.7 cm)"}}]}