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        "tombstone": "Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Hands Holding a Book (verso), 1889. Childe Hassam (American, 1859\u20131935). Watercolor with gouache and graphite; sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1938.65",
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        "title": "Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Hands Holding a Book (verso)",
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            {
                "inscription": "signed, lower left, in brown ink: Childe Hassam.  canterbury 1889.",
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                    "id": 346276,
                    "title": "Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-28, 1939).",
                    "opening_date": "1939-02-07T05:00:00"
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                    "opening_date": "1984-12-28T05:00:00"
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        "description": "Late in 1886, Hassam and his wife departed his native Boston for France, spending the next three years abroad. His work of this period reflected his burgeoning interest in French Impressionism; he increasingly used broken brushstrokes and a lighter palette. Rather than being labeled an American Impressionist, however, Hassam preferred to identify himself as a painter of \"light and air.\" An early morning rosy sky illuminates this distant view of Canterbury Cathedral, one of several watercolors of the English city.",
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            {
                "citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, no. 73",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:47:59.784000"
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