{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"83"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr."},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1972"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1990     1    7"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1990.1.7"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"New York"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2055/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2055"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Self-portrait"},"geographyCity":{"value":"New York"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["self-portrait","Reverened Bogun's paintings were discovered at the 1970 annual Transit Authority Show by Herbert W. Hemphill, who arranged to have Bogun's work on display at the Museum of American Folk Art the same year. He also included Bogun in his seminal work, TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FOLK ART AND ARTISTS. Bogun, the son of Polish immigrants, paints self-portraits, landscapes, portraits of friends and \"heroes,\" those called to religious orders, those who guard the transit system, and those who wear uniforms and have earned medals. He calls his work \"spiritual art\" and sees his paintings as God-inspired. In 1951 Bogun was ordained a minister in a now defunct religious order: The Temple of Light Church, and carried out his ministry in the Saint Andrews Spiritual Church. Although he worked for a time in the bauxite mines of South America, he spent most of his adult years working for the transit authority. He started painting after seeing the Transit Authority Art SHow in 1967 and will [painti only when he hears a \"call\" to do so. He has not painted actively since 1986 and is known to have executed only fifteen canvases. He will be included in the forthcoming \"ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOLK ARTISTS.\"","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"]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Paintings"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"New York"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"152254"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":""},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"in red paint lower right: '∞ / Rev. Mac / 1972'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1002","content":"Reverend Maceptaw Bogun"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["self-portrait","Reverened Bogun's paintings were discovered at the 1970 annual Transit Authority Show by Herbert W. Hemphill, who arranged to have Bogun's work on display at the Museum of American Folk Art the same year. He also included Bogun in his seminal work, TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FOLK ART AND ARTISTS. Bogun, the son of Polish immigrants, paints self-portraits, landscapes, portraits of friends and \"heroes,\" those called to religious orders, those who guard the transit system, and those who wear uniforms and have earned medals. He calls his work \"spiritual art\" and sees his paintings as God-inspired. In 1951 Bogun was ordained a minister in a now defunct religious order: The Temple of Light Church, and carried out his ministry in the Saint Andrews Spiritual Church. Although he worked for a time in the bauxite mines of South America, he spent most of his adult years working for the transit authority. He started painting after seeing the Transit Authority Art SHow in 1967 and will [painti only when he hears a \"call\" to do so. He has not painted actively since 1986 and is known to have executed only fifteen canvases. He will be included in the forthcoming \"ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOLK ARTISTS.\"","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":"1972"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1972"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - Sunday, September 11, 2005","exhibitionEndISODate":"2005-09-11","exhibitionID":"131","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2005-03-16","exhibitionBeginDate":"2005","exhibitionTitle":"Self and Subject","exhibitionEndDate":"2005"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - Thursday, July 11, 2019","exhibitionEndISODate":"2019-07-11","exhibitionID":"232","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2019-02-19","exhibitionBeginDate":"2019","exhibitionTitle":"New York Experienced","exhibitionEndDate":"2019"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 9, 1970 - Sunday, November 29, 1970","exhibitionEndISODate":"1970-11-29","exhibitionID":"51","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1970-09-09","exhibitionBeginDate":"1970","exhibitionTitle":"Twentieth Century Folk Art","exhibitionEndDate":"1970"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, June 28, 1990 - Sunday, September 9, 1990","exhibitionEndISODate":"1990-09-09","exhibitionID":"15","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1990-06-28","exhibitionBeginDate":"1990","exhibitionTitle":"Pictures, Patchwork and Promised Gifts","exhibitionEndDate":"1990"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"31 x 25 \" (78.7 x 63.5 cm)"}}]}