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"title": "Boy in a Blue Coat",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 91.5 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)",
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"inscription": "signed lower left: Geo Bellows.",
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"id": 312341,
"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
"opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
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"id": 445524,
"title": "Celebrate Ohio: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition",
"description": "Celebrate Ohio: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (September 27-November 7, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-09-27T04:00:00"
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"id": 442840,
"title": "American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).",
"opening_date": "1979-07-07T04:00:00"
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"description": "Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Annual Fall Exhibition of American Painting (12 October-9 November 1915), see The Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design (April, 1915, and January 1916), for references to the show.",
"opening_date": "1915-10-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1916), Bellows' notebooks indicated that this painting went to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1916, however the Exposition itself, ran from 20 February-4 December 1915; further, this painting is not listed in the catalogue for the 1915 show; however, p. 8 of the Report of the Department of Fine Arts does indicate that from 1 January-1 May 1916, the Department of Fine Arts conducted a post-Exposition exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts which included both objects in the original 1915 exhibition and additional works.",
"opening_date": "1915-02-20T00:00:00"
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"description": "Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, (1918), cat. no. 6, illus.",
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"description": "New York, Montross Gallery, Special Exhibition of Paintings, (1918), cat. no. 1(?).",
"opening_date": "1918-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Akron, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times (December, 1945), cat. no. 31, illus.",
"opening_date": "1945-12-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Youngstown, OH, The Butler Institute of American Art, Exhibition of Ohio Painters (2-30 April 1967), cat. no. 5. ",
"opening_date": "1967-04-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "Akron, Akron Art Institute, Celebrate Ohio: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (27 September-7 November 1971), cat. not numbered, not illus.",
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"description": "Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July-1 November 1979), cat. not numbered, not illus.",
"opening_date": "1979-07-07T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (17 September-13 October 1980), no separate catalogue seems to exist, but it is assumed that it would be similar to the Coshocton catalogue (see above).",
"opening_date": "1980-09-17T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Pioneers: Early 20th Century Art from Midwestern Museums (17 September-1 November 1981), cat. no. 2, illus.",
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"description": "Newman Emerson Montross [1849\u20131932], New York, NY",
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"description": "[American Galleries, New York, NY, February 8, 1923, lot 50]",
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"description": "Josephine Pettengill Everett [1866\u20131937], Cleveland, OH",
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"did_you_know": "George Bellows painted more than 140 portraits during his brief career.",
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"description": "George Bellows created this work during July 1915 in Ogunquit, Maine. Because of frequent rainy weather, the artist tended to paint indoors, focusing on portraiture. The identity of the sitter in this example remains unknown.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"The Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 6, pt. 2 (June 1938): 124-131",
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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 Stag at Sharkey\u2019s. 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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