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        "title": "Reducing Exercises",
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                    "id": 357204,
                    "title": "Humor in Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Humor in Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934).",
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                    "title": "Stag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports",
                    "description": "<i>Stag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14-September 18, 2016).",
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (05/14/2016-09/18/2016): \u201cStag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports\u201d",
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        "description": "Fueled by the advertising industry and the increasing popularity of movies, the ideal standard for women\u2019s bodies began to evolve during the early 20th century, fostering a preference for more curvaceous profiles with thinner waists. Bellows\u2019s <em>Reducing Exercises</em> presents a woman dutifully engaged in changing her physique while her male companion sleeps<em>.</em> When he first exhibited the print, the artist provided an accompanying quip: \u201cGymnastics before retiring are supposed to reduce the flesh. The husband is contented with his figure.\u201d",
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                "biography": "An accomplished athlete, George Bellows (1882\u20131925) was an especially appropriate artist to address the subject of sports. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, he played baseball and basketball as a youth, developing sufficient ability to letter in both at Ohio State University. According to some accounts, scouts for the Cincinnati Reds took notice of his shortstop talents. However, Bellows\u2019s first love, art, ultimately intervened, and after his junior year he relocated to New York to study painting. In a remarkably short period he became the leading artist of his generation, a reputation fueled through boxing subjects such as <em>Stag at Sharkey\u2019s.</em> In his later years he developed recreational passions for tennis and billiards, which he routinely played with friends. Bellows\u2019s life was cut short at the age of 42, due to complications after his appendix ruptured.",
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