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"tombstone": "Catherine Greene, 1769. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738\u20131815). Oil on canvas; framed: 145.5 x 121 x 7 cm (57 5/16 x 47 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 125.7 x 101 cm (49 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.527",
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"title": "Catherine Greene",
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"inscription": "Signed lower right: \"JSCp. 1769 [JSC in monogram]\"",
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"title": "Inaugural Exhibition",
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"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
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"title": "64th Anniversary of Opening of Gallery",
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"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
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"title": "Turkish Fashion in 18th-century America",
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"title": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits",
"description": "CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29-December 17, 2006).",
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"description": "Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design (1915 or before?) (see R.C. Vose letter 28 June 1015).",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition (6 June - 20 September 1916), cat. no. 127, p. 38, illus. p. 251.",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October, 1936), cat. no. 22, pp. 21-22.",
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"description": "Columbus, OH, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Colonial Americas (9 October - 9 November 1947).",
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"description": "Boston, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., A Loan Exhibition Honoring Robert Churchill Vose on Commencing his Sixty-Fifth Year as Head of this Firm: Forty Paintings Which have Passed Through his Hands (7 - 25 March 1961), cat. no. 9.",
"opening_date": "1961-03-07T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June - 8 September 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-06T00:00:00"
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"description": "San Diego, CA, The Timken Museum of Art, John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th Century America (10 December 1998 - 11 April 1999); traveled to Canton, OH, Canton Art Museum (25 April - 13 June 1999), cat. no. 3, p. 17.",
"opening_date": "1999-04-25T00:00:00"
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"description": "Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29 - December 17, 2006): \"CMA @ Oberlin - American Portraits\"",
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"description": "Margaret Greene Spencer, sister of the sitter; Phebe Greene Ward; John Ward, son of Phebe Greene Ward; Charles Henry Ward, grandnephew of John Ward, inherited in 1866; Mary M. Ward, widow of Charles Henry Ward; (New York sale 1914); (Vose Gallery, Boston: the first painting bought by the Museum, 1915).",
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"did_you_know": "Small, shimmering pearls in the woman's hair and on her sleeves add an opulent touch to this portrait.",
"description": "The Boston painter Copley's virtuosity at rendering luxurious textiles was precisely the kind of talent that appealed to his patrons. In 1769 the prosperous merchant John Greene commissioned a portrait of himself and this portrait of his wife, Catherine (1735\u20131785), after thirteen years of marriage. Shown at the age of 34, Mrs. Greene wears a fanciful costume inspired by ancient styles, strikes a pose derived from an English engraving, and pretends to lean against a rock that looks as insubstantial as a theatrical prop. This likeness places Mrs. Greene in an ideal realm far removed from mundane matters. The frame is original.",
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"citation": "Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston: Priv. Print, 1873.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 67",
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"citation": "Clarke, Louise Brownell, George Sears Greene, and F. V. Greene. The Greenes of Rhode Island: With Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903.",
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"citation": "Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins. Boston: Taylor Press, 1915.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 129-130",
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"citation": "\"The Collection of Paintings.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 2, no. 2 (1915): 4-5.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cover; mentioned: p. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136018"
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"citation": "Bell, Hamilton. \"Early American Portraits at The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" The American Magazine of Art. 7:12 (October, 1916). p. 484-8.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 484-488; Reproduced: p. 488",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Gibson, Katharine. The Goldsmith of Florence: A Book of Great Craftsmen. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 150-70; Reproduced: p. 155",
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"citation": "Bolton, Theodore and Harry Lorin Binsee. \"John Singleton Copley.\" The Antiquarian. 15:6 (December, 1930). p. 76-84.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 76-84; Reproduced: p. 80",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Parker, Barbara Neville, and Anne Bolling Wheeler. John Singleton Copley; American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 90-91; Reproduced: plate 98",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Sellers, Charles Coleman. \"Mezzotint Prototypes of Colonial Portraiture: A Survey Based on the Research of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.\" The Art Quarterly. 20:4 (Winter, 1957). p. 407-68.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 407-68; Reproduced: p. 448, fig. 37A",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 530",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n98"
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"citation": "Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 307, no. 40A, plate XXXVI",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n184"
},
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"citation": "Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 216, fig. 261",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 160",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n184"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. \"A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). p. 1-36.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24, fig. 41",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 198",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n218"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 114",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 43",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Tieken, Nancy B., et. al. American Art from the Currier Gallery of Art. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1995",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. X, cat. 1",
"url": null
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"citation": "Hecksher, Morrison H. \"Copley's Picture Frames.\" John Singleton Copley in America. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 151",
"url": null
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"citation": "Barratt, Carrie Rebora. John Singleton Copley and Margaret Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th-Century America. San Diego, CA: Putnam Foundation, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 17, cat. 3",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \"Two by Copley.\" Cleveland Art. 46 (October, 2006).",
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"citation": "Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
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