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"title": "Portrait of a Woman",
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"title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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