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                    "id": 301501,
                    "title": "40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland",
                    "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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                    "id": 301685,
                    "title": "Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings",
                    "description": "<i>Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).",
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                    "title": "Flower Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Flower Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 7-June 6, 1965).",
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                    "id": 301359,
                    "title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
                    "description": "<i>The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).",
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                    "title": "The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints",
                    "description": "<i>The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983).",
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                },
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                    "id": 203083,
                    "title": "The Flowering of the Botanical Print",
                    "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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