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"title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
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"citation": "Peters, Emily J. \u201cPeople Watching: Curator Emily Peters introduces the upcoming show featuring artists of the early 20th-century Ashcan School.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 27-29.",
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