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                    "id": 355466,
                    "title": "Exhibition of the Month: The Artist, The River and the Sea",
                    "description": "<i>Exhibition of the Month: The Artist, The River and the Sea</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 2-July 28, 1947).",
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                {
                    "id": 309877,
                    "title": "Nocturnal Impressions",
                    "description": "<i>Nocturnal Impressions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 12, 1985).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-02-20T05:00:00"
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                    "id": 310122,
                    "title": "The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print",
                    "description": "<i>The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 9-October 16, 1988).",
                    "opening_date": "1988-08-09T04:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 178036,
                    "title": "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century",
                    "description": "<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).",
                    "opening_date": "2004-08-15T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 203744,
                    "title": "Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).",
                    "opening_date": "2015-01-25T00:00:00"
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        "description": "Whistler was the first to borrow musical terms for the titles of his works of art. In 1872, he defined painting as \"the exact correlative of music, as vague, as purely emotional, as released from all functions of representation.\" Whistler\u2019s use of musical terminology was meant to convey the supremacy of color, line, and form over subject matter in his art. The title <em>Nocturne</em> was suggested by the artist\u2019s patron, Frederick Leyland, an enthusiastic amateur pianist who was especially fond of Chopin, whose nocturnes were regarded as the epitome of Romantic mood music\u2014particularly appropriate for Whistler\u2019s moonlit marine views.",
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