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"title": "The Homage Show",
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"description": "Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art, Februrary 6-May 15, 1994: \"Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio's Impressionists and Post Impressionists,\" p. 55, pl. 16, p. 145. Also to: Springfield, OH, Springfield Art Museum, August 28-October 30, 1994; Youngstown, OH, Butler Institute of American Art, March 12-April 30, 1995",
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"did_you_know": "The fashion craze of incorporating feathers in women's hats resulted in the deaths of millions of birds.",
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"description": "William J. Edmondson felt that artists should paint what they see, and once declared, \"When painting a portrait, I do not indulge in this \u2018painting of the soul\u2019 stuff.\" The sitter in The Blue Feather was his student, Caroline Mytinger, who often modeled for him. Later a portraitist in her own right, she traveled to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to record its Indigenous people.",
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"citation": "\"Recent Changes in the Painting Galleries.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 2/3 (1918): 22-27.",
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