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        "tombstone": "Standing Woman in a Black Gown, after 1909. Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851\u20131938). Pastel with black chalk; sheet: 36.4 x 28.4 cm (14 5/16 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1938.122",
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        "title": "Standing Woman in a Black Gown",
        "creation_date": "after 1909",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1910,
        "creation_date_latest": 1915,
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            "male"
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "pastel with black chalk",
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                "description": "dark green-brown wove paper laid down on board (possibly by artist; see Hobbs p. 199)",
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        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - American 19th Century",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 36.4 x 28.4 cm (14 5/16 x 11 3/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.364,
                "height_inch": 14,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125,
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                "width_inch": 11,
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in black chalk: TW Dewing / 76",
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 191183,
                    "title": "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection",
                    "description": "<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).",
                    "opening_date": "1998-04-19T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 283693,
                    "title": "Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).",
                    "opening_date": "2016-11-19T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        "description": "Inspired by an exhibition of James McNeill Whistler\u2019s pastels at H. Wunderlich &amp; Company in New York City in 1889, Dewing began making pastels the following year. Like Whistler, he used a small format to portray isolated, highly aestheticized young women in interiors without dramatic context. Ultimately, Dewing made more than 200 pastels, works of art in and of themselves, unrelated to his oil paintings. The figure here, wearing a midnight-blue gown, is diaphanous, opalescent, almost dreamlike in her insubstantiality.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79540031"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Hobbs, Susan and Shoshanna Abeles. <em>Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301.</em> [Alexandria, VA] : The Thomas Wilmer Dewing Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 ; New Haven: in association with Yale University Press 2018.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 908, cat. # 516; Reproduced: p. 909, plate 516",
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        "creditline": "Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection",
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                "description": "Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851\u20131938)",
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                "birth_year": "1851",
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        "accession_date": "1938-06-03T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1910,
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        "date_text": "after 1909",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "The Black Gown"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:47:57.695000"
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