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"description": "Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).",
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"title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection",
"description": "Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).",
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"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
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"description": "Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).",
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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": 351103,
"title": "Italian Prints and Drawings",
"description": "Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968).",
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"title": "18th Century Master Drawings",
"description": "18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).",
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{
"id": 356669,
"title": "Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition",
"description": "Giovanni Battista Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (November 20, 1983-February 26, 1984).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971- (Gallery F remained open)).",
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"description": "CMA, \"End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg.\" (closed Mar. 13, 1957).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).",
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"description": "Oberlin, Ohio, Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, \"Twenty-Four Eighteenth Century French and Italian Drawings,\" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 8 (Jan. 4-31, 1951), p. 54.",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (from June 30, 1950).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (May. 14, 1946- ).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (July 27, 1944-Sep. 25, 1944).",
"opening_date": "1944-07-27T00:00:00"
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"description": "Baltimore Museum of Art, Three Baroque Masters: Strozzi, Crespi, and Piazzetta (Apr. 28-June 4, 1944), no. 48.",
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"description": "Toledo Museum of Art, Four Centuries of Venetian Painting (Mar. 3-31, 1940), no. 85.",
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"description": "CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings of the Period Shown with the Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest\" (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).",
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