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"title": "19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"title": "Working among Flowers: French Still Life in the 19th Century",
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"description": "French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (1934).",
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"did_you_know": "Redon returned to the subject of flowers many times throughout his career. His interest in plants may have been inspired by his friend and mentor Armand Clavaud, a botanist and illustrator who lived in Redon's hometown of Bordeaux.",
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"description": "Rapturous flower still lifes like this dominated the last decade and a half of Odilon Redon\u2019s career and provided his greatest commercial success. His interest in plants and flowers began in his youth; child of wine producers, he grew up northwest of Bordeaux and was sensitive to fluctuations in weather, light, and temperature affecting the grape harvest. When he was 20, Redon met Armond Clavaud, a botanist and draftsman who illustrated his own compendium of flowers of the Bordeaux region. Clavaud\u2019s meticulously rendered drawings sparked the young Redon\u2019s imagination and helped to instill his desire to paint \u201cnature, as seen in a dream.\u201d",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"A Flower Piece by Odilon Redon.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXIII, no. 1 (January 1936): 4-6.",
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"citation": "\"Cleveland Gets Redon Work: Vase of Flowers.\" ARTnews 34 (January 11, 1936): 16.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 16",
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"citation": "Carnegie Institute. Department of Fine Arts. A Survey of French Painting : Gallery A, Second Floor April 2 to May 14 Mcmxxxvi. Pittsburgh, PA: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1936.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 341, p 127",
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"citation": "\"Vase of Flowers.\" Arts 30 (December 1955): 41.",
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"citation": "Redon, Odilon. \"Odilon Redon: To Myself.\" Portfolio 8 (Spring 1964): 100-120.",
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"citation": "Berger, Klaus. Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Awazu, Norio. Redon. Tokyo: Shinchosa, 1975.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n244"
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"citation": "Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 de l'Oeuvre Peint et Dessine\u0301. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1992.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 111, no. 1522, vol. 3",
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 191",
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"citation": "D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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"citation": "Lemonedes, Heather. \"Bits of Rainbows: Odilon Redon's Vase of Flowers and the power of enlightenment.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 1 (January/February 2016): 5-7.",
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