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                    "title": "Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art",
                    "description": "<i>Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 5, 1952).",
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                    "description": "<i>40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 3, 1959-January 20, 1960).",
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                    "description": "<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).",
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