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"description": "Clyde, Ohio, Community Room, Clyde Savings Bank, Arts and Crafts Show: Past-Present-Future (4-6 March 1966) listed, not illus. or numbered; organized by The Clyde Art Group.",
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"description": "Shaker Heights, Ohio, Laurel School, Work of Karl Anderson (6 June 1967).",
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"description": "Roslyn Harbor, NY, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Armory Show and the Eight: Before and After (24 April-29 July 1984) illus. cat. no. 94, p. 67 (see also References)",
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"did_you_know": "The apple variety depicted in this painting is the McIntosh, which today accounts for two-thirds of New England\u2019s annual apple harvest.",
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