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"tombstone": "The Kitchen Table, 1935. Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896\u20131958). Assembly process color print (three-color carbro process); image: 30 x 39.3 cm (11 13/16 x 15 1/2 in.); paper: 30.1 x 42.5 cm (11 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ralph S. Allen, 1942.1164",
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"measurements": "Image: 30 x 39.3 cm (11 13/16 x 15 1/2 in.); Paper: 30.1 x 42.5 cm (11 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)",
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"inscription": "At the top right corner of margin, written in pencil: \" ---- fill this in\"? . On the verso, a black ink stamp: \" THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART/ 42.1164\".",
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"title": "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art",
"description": "The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).",
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"title": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]",
"description": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).",
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{
"id": 217118,
"title": "Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance",
"description": "Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 31-August 9, 2009).",
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"id": 299125,
"title": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression",
"description": "From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).",
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"description": "Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Nov. 21 - Jan. 10, 1982: \"Paul Outerbridge: A Singular Aesthetic: Photographs & Drawings, 1921-1941: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9,\" catalogue no. 445.",
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"description": "CMA, January 24 - April 9, 1989: \"The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art,\" folder 191.89.",
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"did_you_know": "The gray scale at the bottom, intended to help printers in color matching, would not have been visible in the printed reproduction of the image.",
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"description": "A gift of six color images by Outerbridge was the second group of photographs to enter the museum\u2019s fine art collection. Supporting himself as an advertising photographer and graphic designer, he began experimenting with color photography and printing in 1929, when the processes were still very unstable and arcane. Outerbridge preferred the vivid hues and permanence of the dauntingly complex carbro process, which produced color prints from black-and-white negatives.",
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"citation": "Chassey, Eric de. Made in USA: l'art ame\u0301ricain, 1908-1947 : Bordeaux, Muse\u0301e des beaux-arts, 10 octobre-31 de\u0301cembre 2001, Renne, Muse\u0301e des beaux-arts, 18 janvier-31 mars 2002, Montpellier, Muse\u0301e Fabre, 12 avril-23 juin 2001. Paris: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 2001.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 265",
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"biography": "Paul Outerbridge, Jr. American, 1896-1958\r\n\r\nPaul Outerbridge, Jr., was a modernist photographer and early pioneer in color work who embarked on a successful advertising career in the 1920s. Following studies at the Art Students League in his native New York (1915-17) and service in the British Royal Flying Corps (Canada) and U.S. Army, Outerbridge enrolled in Clarence H. White's School of Photography in 1921. Influenced by the school's strong emphasis on design, he created carefully composed, often abstracted, still-life studies of everyday objects. After a year of study he began work as a commercial photographer, providing innovative images for such publications as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. He also continued his personal work, producing still lifes, cityscapes, and figure studies.\r\n\tIn 1925 Outerbridge moved to Paris, where he established himself as a freelance photographer and became acquainted with a number of artists, including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Berenice Abbott. Three years later he was in Berlin working on motion pictures and that same year also worked in London as a set advisor to film director E. A. Dupont. Returning to the United States in 1929, Outerbridge resumed his commercial work, first in New York City, then in Monsey, New York. He also experimented with color photography, perfecting the three-color carbo process technique that he used during the 1930s.\r\n\tOuterbridge moved to Hollywood in 1943, but soon left to settle in Laguna Beach and open a small portrait studio. Following his marriage to fashion designer Lois Weir in 1945, Outerbridge closed his studio to focus on their joint fashion business, Lois-Paul Originals. He also traveled extensively during these years. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1958, Outerbridge contributed a column on color photography to U.S. Camera magazine. M.M.",
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