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"title": "Return from Russia",
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"id": 300853,
"title": "Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter",
"description": "Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).",
"opening_date": "1956-03-08T05:00:00"
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"title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition",
"description": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).",
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"id": 301501,
"title": "40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland",
"description": "40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 3, 1959-January 20, 1960).",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
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"id": 309649,
"title": "Goya, Gericault and Delacroix",
"description": "Goya, Gericault and Delacroix. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-April 24, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1983-01-25T05:00:00"
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"id": 309886,
"title": "Printing in Color",
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"opening_date": "1985-09-10T04:00:00"
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"id": 311461,
"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
"description": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).",
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"title": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
"description": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).",
"opening_date": "2001-08-26T00:00:00"
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. \"Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints\".",
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"did_you_know": "This print was created at a time when Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault was focusing on military subjects in his prints, drawings, and paintings.",
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"description": "G\u00e9ricault was an accomplished lithographer who realized the potential of the medium. Two stones were used to print this image\u2014one for the design printed in black and the other to create the broad areas of tone printed in ochre. This is one of the earliest French lithographs in which a second color is somewhat integrated into the image instead of just being used for the overall background. G\u00e9ricault added white watercolor to indicate snow on the lower portion of the scene. Unlike other artists who glorified the Napoleonic Wars (1792\u20131815), Gericault portrayed a realistic image of the misery and horrors of combat. This scene of two wounded soldiers and exhausted, starving animals is a powerful statement of the pitiful conditions following Napoleon's defeat by the Russians.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Recent Accessions to the Department of Prints.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 10 (December 1934): 158-161.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 160",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137657"
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"citation": "Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 37",
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