{"person":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1180"},"lastName":{"label":"Last Name","value":"Gatto"},"endDate":{"label":"Death Date","value":"1965"},"displayName":{"label":"Name","value":"Victor Joseph Gatto"},"objects":{"label":"Objects","value":[{"objectTitle":"Jungle Scene","objectNumber":"2000.9.1","objectID":"2721"},{"objectTitle":"Incoming Tide","objectNumber":"1980.3.19","objectID":"283"},{"objectTitle":"Tiger and Strange Animals","objectNumber":"1980.3.1a,b","objectID":"1550"},{"objectTitle":"Dragon","objectNumber":"1985.6.2","objectID":"725"},{"objectTitle":"Woman Looking in a Mirror","objectNumber":"1980.3.20","objectID":"1698"},{"objectTitle":"Dempsey vs Flipo","objectNumber":"2008.4.6","objectID":"2457"},{"objectTitle":"Madonna and Child","objectNumber":"2012.24.1","objectID":"3176"},{"objectTitle":"Nude with Black Cat","objectNumber":"2008.16.10","objectID":"2469"},{"objectTitle":"Bath","objectNumber":"2008.4.9","objectID":"2460"}]},"geographyDied":{"label":"Died","value":["Miami","New York"]},"geographyActive":{"label":"Active","value":["Miami","New York"]},"geographyBorn":{"label":"Born","value":["Miami","New York"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Birth Date","value":"1893"},"firstName":{"label":"First Name","value":"Victor"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"Although Gatto did not start to paint full-time until 1938, he was interested in art even as a child.  By the early 1940's, his work was already critically acclaimed and one of his canvasses appeared at the Whitney Museum of Art.  In 1943, he was given a one-man show at the Charles Barzansky Gallery and became a major figure thereafter.  He painted with brushed stripped to only a few hairs, building up many thick layers of paint with painstaking care to create the thick impasto of paint and great detail typical of his canvasses."},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/3198/full"},"names":{"label":"Names","value":["Victor Joseph Gatto","Joe Gatto"]},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"(1893\u20131965)"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"151238"}}]}