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"title": "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere",
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"inscription": "Signed on back of base: \"Walter A. Sinz, 1940\"",
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"title": "The May Show: 23rd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 23rd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 30-June 8, 1941).",
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"title": "Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show",
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"title": "A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975",
"description": "A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-August 21, 1977).",
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"title": "Art Deco",
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"title": "The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years",
"description": "The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).",
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"title": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. \"Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age\", no exhibition catalogue.",
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"citation": "Walter A. Sinz Entry Card to 1941 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 56, no. 61; Mentioned: P. 80, no. 61",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 237",
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