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{
"id": 346817,
"title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries",
"description": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).",
"opening_date": "1934-11-09T05:00:00"
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
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{
"id": 306699,
"title": "British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020)",
"description": "British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
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"did_you_know": "Allegorical figures most often decorated a table during the dessert course, providing amusing subjects for conversation.",
"description": "In this group depicting the four seasons, a young boy in ice skates represents winter; a young lady adorns her hair with flowers in spring; a young man guards his beehive in summer; and a girl gathers fruit in autumn.",
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"citation": "\"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
Only Summer (1917.611.3) and Autumn (1917.611.2) reproduced.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
Only Summer (1917.611.3) and Autumn (1917.611.2) reproduced.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14"
},
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"citation": "\"The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 43-50",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 43",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106"
},
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"citation": "\"European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 57-59",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 59",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137108"
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
Only Autumn (1917.611.2) reproduced. Incorrectly published as Spring (1917.611.1).",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 267",
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