{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"9121"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Museum purchase with funds provided by Will and Mary Evans, Steven S. Powers and Joshua Lowenfels, Jolie and David Altman, Douglas O. Robson, and Augusta and Gill Holland"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1925"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2024     2    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2024.2.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Patient depiction of the sanatorium grounds"},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Adam Reich"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Charcoal on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Radford"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27440/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27440"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Untitled"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Radford"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"Aside from the initials \u201cWWB\u201d contained within a six-sided star in the bottom right corner of this drawing, the identity of the artist is undetermined. It is known that they were a patient at St. Albans Sanatorium, in Radford, Virginia, and it is possible that the landscape portrayed represents the rolling hills in the southwestern part of the state. Against this backdrop, the artist sketched an orderly garden surrounding a building with a dome, castle-like turrets, and an American flag. The materials\u2014charcoal on thin kraft paper \u2014give the piece a weathered texture, with areas of the composition, such as its tear-drop-shaped trees, densely shaded. These are joined by floral plantings and a grid of walkways, with two benches set in the grass facing the viewer as if offering an invitation to stay for a while within the pastoral space. The most fantastic element is on the fence in the foreground. Positioned above its elegant heart scrollwork are busts of six female figures, each with a similar face and serene expression. The word \u201chome\u201d can also be seen in small lettering on the gate.  This drawing was created around 1920, just a few years after St. Albans was founded in 1916 as a privately funded hospital to treat \u201cmental and nervous disorders.\u201d Established with ambitions to be a free-ranging institution, offering spaces for recreation, a rooftop garden, orchards, and a small farm on its fifty-six-acre grounds, it declined in its quality of care over the years. By the mid-1940s, it was overcrowded and marked by inhumane and experimental treatments. Although the structure in this drawing does not directly correspond with the buildings at St. Albans, it may have been inspired by the facility\u2019s bucolic beginnings. Allison C. Meier, Valérie Rousseau, and Edward Dioguardi, 2025 Text written as part of \u201cRethinking Biography,\u201d an initiative supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Works on Paper","Recent Acquisitions"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Radford"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"157840"},"geographyState":{"value":"Virginia"},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"recto lower right: 'WWB'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"Aside from the initials \u201cWWB\u201d contained within a six-sided star in the bottom right corner of this drawing, the identity of the artist is undetermined. It is known that they were a patient at St. Albans Sanatorium, in Radford, Virginia, and it is possible that the landscape portrayed represents the rolling hills in the southwestern part of the state. Against this backdrop, the artist sketched an orderly garden surrounding a building with a dome, castle-like turrets, and an American flag. The materials\u2014charcoal on thin kraft paper \u2014give the piece a weathered texture, with areas of the composition, such as its tear-drop-shaped trees, densely shaded. These are joined by floral plantings and a grid of walkways, with two benches set in the grass facing the viewer as if offering an invitation to stay for a while within the pastoral space. The most fantastic element is on the fence in the foreground. Positioned above its elegant heart scrollwork are busts of six female figures, each with a similar face and serene expression. The word \u201chome\u201d can also be seen in small lettering on the gate.  This drawing was created around 1920, just a few years after St. Albans was founded in 1916 as a privately funded hospital to treat \u201cmental and nervous disorders.\u201d Established with ambitions to be a free-ranging institution, offering spaces for recreation, a rooftop garden, orchards, and a small farm on its fifty-six-acre grounds, it declined in its quality of care over the years. By the mid-1940s, it was overcrowded and marked by inhumane and experimental treatments. Although the structure in this drawing does not directly correspond with the buildings at St. Albans, it may have been inspired by the facility\u2019s bucolic beginnings. Allison C. Meier, Valérie Rousseau, and Edward Dioguardi, 2025 Text written as part of \u201cRethinking Biography,\u201d an initiative supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1915"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":""},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1920"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, April 12, 2024 - Sunday, August 18, 2024","exhibitionEndISODate":"2024-08-18","exhibitionID":"258","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2024-04-12","exhibitionBeginDate":"2024","exhibitionTitle":"Francesc Tosquelles","exhibitionEndDate":"2024"}},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Frame: 18 x 29 1/2 \" (45.7 x 74.9 cm)"}}]}