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"description": "New York, Kurtz Gallery, First Exhibition of The Society of American Artists (6 March-5 April 1878), cat. no. 12.",
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"description": "Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin's 125th Anniversary Exhibition (15-30 October 1958)",
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"description": "Mansfield, OH, The Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March-5 April 1981), cat. no. 22 as Fort George Island, Coast of Florida.",
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"description": "Gainesville, FL, University Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Florida Visionaries: 1870-1930 (19 February-26 March 1989), cat. not numbered; illus. p. 50.",
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"description": "Miss Rose Durfee, 1878; Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland.",
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"description": "At a time when the northeast coast of Florida was becoming a popular tourist destination, Thomas Moran visited the area in February and March of 1877. He made many sketches around St. Augustine and Jacksonville. During the coming months, back in his Newark, NJ studio, the artist used these sketches as source material for more than a dozen oil paintings, including Fort George Island, Florida.",
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"citation": "Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 74",
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"citation": "Wilkins, Thurman. Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountains. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 108-119, 189-190; Reproduced: following p. 96",
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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). pp. 1-36.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 31, cat. 136",
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"citation": "Carr, Archie. \"Eden Changes.\" In Born of the Sun: The Official Florida Bicentennial Commemorative Book. Blank, Joan, and Beth R. Read, eds. Hollywood, FL: Florida Bicentennial Commemorative Journal, 1975.",
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"citation": "Bienenstock, Jennifer A. Martin. \"The Formation and Early Years of the Society of American Artists, 1877-1884.\" Ph.D. dissertation, The City University of New York, 1983.",
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"citation": "Burke, Doreen Bolger, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger. \"The Hudson River School in Eclipse.\" In American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 89; Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 4.24",
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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.",
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"citation": "Wilkins, Thurman, and Caroline Lawson Hinkley. Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.",
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