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                    "id": 310009,
                    "title": "From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators",
                    "description": "<i>From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-August 17, 1986).",
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                {
                    "id": 543573,
                    "title": "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art",
                    "description": "<i>Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).",
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        "description": "One of only a handful of illustrations created by American artist James McNeill Whistler, this image accompanied an anonymously published romantic, moralizing short story entitled \u201cThe Trial Sermon\u201d that appeared in the 1862 issue of <em>Good Words</em>, a British periodical. Like many of Whistler\u2019s paintings, his illustrations avoid narrative elements; he focused instead on character sketches, allowing him to explore the visual and technical possibilities of his medium. Lost in thought, the woman in the picture communicates very little of her interior life. Instead, Whistler\u2019s rendering of the figure matches that of her surroundings, turning her into an aesthetic object.",
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