{
 "schema": "nephos.method.v1",
 "slug": "groutage-view-of-smithfield-1950",
 "title": "Harrison Groutage, View of Smithfield, 1950",
 "urls": [
  "/studies/groutage-view-of-smithfield-1950"
 ],
 "written": {
  "summary": "NEHMA dates the panel to 1950 and locates its subject around Groutage’s Smithfield home. No season or painting day is supplied. The full calendar year provides regional context without choosing a month from the greenery.",
  "items": [
   {
    "quote": "land surrounding his Smithfield, Utah home",
    "source": "NEHMA, object record 1984.1868",
    "url": "https://artmuseum-collection.usu.edu/objects-1/info/3687?objectName=View+of+Smithfield&page=1&sort=9"
   },
   {
    "quote": "I don’t sit down and copy nature. I dramatize it. I celebrate it.",
    "source": "Groutage, quoted by Boise Art Museum beside Franklin Hill (1960), PDF p. 22; general practice",
    "url": "https://boiseartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Portraits-of-Sky-large-print-labels.pdf#page=22"
   }
  ]
 },
 "records": [
  {
   "name": "Logan Utah St Univ, USC00425186",
   "detail": "Complete daily high/low temperatures and precipitation for 1950. Monthly values describe the catalogue year; 1949 and 1951 are separate annual comparisons with temperature gaps retained.",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00425186.dly"
  },
  {
   "name": "Smithfield, USC00427885: not used",
   "detail": "The downloaded file contains 1924–1930 only. It supplies no 1950 observations.",
   "url": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00427885.dly"
  }
 ],
 "gaps": [
  "No exact viewpoint, season, painting day, dated sketch or object-specific account of making has been established.",
  "Inventory coordinates do not establish the 1950 instrument exposure or observation schedule.",
  "No local river-flow record or weather witness tied to the painting has been established."
 ],
 "tests": [
  {
   "claim": "Does the museum’s green landscape identify a rainy season?",
   "result": "No. Green vegetation and the river do not establish when it was painted, local rainfall, or water flow."
  },
  {
   "claim": "What does the regional record add?",
   "result": "Logan recorded 80.9 mm of measurable precipitation in May and 6.6 mm in August. The annual sum is 505.8 mm, with 19 additional trace days not quantified."
  },
  {
   "claim": "Did Groutage change the sky?",
   "result": "His published statement describes dramatizing nature in general. It does not document an alteration to this panel or identify its observed weather."
  }
 ],
 "finding": "A named landscape beside the changing conditions of its catalogue year. The record adds regional seasonal context; the painted weather remains undated.",
 "verdicts": [
  {
   "claim": "The year of the depicted weather",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "The catalogue dates the panel; no dated session establishes when its weather was seen."
  },
  {
   "claim": "The painted sky and Groutage’s changes",
   "verdict": "Unknown",
   "reason": "Neither a date for the scene nor an object-specific making account connects the painting to a daily observation."
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "1950 is the catalogue year, not a dated outdoor session. No season is assigned from the green landscape.",
  "Logan and the old Smithfield station inventory positions are 13.5 km apart; this is not a distance to the unknown viewpoint.",
  "Trace precipitation is stored as zero with a T flag; sums are recorded measurable amounts and exclude unquantified traces. Trace days are not dry days.",
  "No rank, modern normal or climate anomaly is claimed. Station moves, instrument exposure and observation-time changes have not been verified; GHCN-Daily is not homogenized.",
  "Precipitation includes rain and liquid-equivalent snow; it does not measure river flow, irrigation, soil moisture or cloud appearance."
 ]
}