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        "accession_number": "1942.898",
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        "tombstone": "Council House. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Etching; platemark: 14.9 x 16.5 cm (5 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.898",
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        "title": "Council House",
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            "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Etching",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Platemark: 14.9 x 16.5 cm (5 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "platemark": {
                "height": 0.149,
                "height_inch": 5,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.875,
                "width": 0.165,
                "width_inch": 6,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.5
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Signed and inscribed, in plate, at lower left: KAUFMAN NYC; titled and inscribed, in graphite, at bottom left: Council House 22; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman",
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Studio of the artist, New York City, sold to Robert Hays Gries",
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                "sortorder": 1
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            {
                "description": "Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "1942",
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                "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1942-",
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        "did_you_know": "The Council Educational Alliance eventually merged into what is now the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Cleveland.",
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        "description": "The building pictured in this print may have been the headquarters of the Council Educational Alliance (CEA), an organization that provided education and art training to Eastern European immigrant families. The artist attended the CEA during his elementary years and exhibited his work with them in 1930. The organization\u2019s commitment to aiding community youth is suggested by the children seen walking in front of the building.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640415"
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        "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries",
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                "description": "Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939)",
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                "biography": "Cleveland-born printmaker and painter Edwin Kaufman was an active member of the Cleveland School during the 1930s. His formal art education began at the Cleveland School of Art, where he learned watercolor and portraiture from Henry Keller. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich and Henry de Waroquier in Paris after winning the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship. In 1930 he exhibited alongside master printmaker K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi at the Council Education Alliance in Cleveland and later published a book of etchings with Kubinyi in 1932. During the early years of the Great Depression, Kaufman participated in the Cleveland Print Makers Club, taught tooling and portraiture at the Euclid Avenue Temple, and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s annual May Show from 1926 to 1937 with a first prize in watercolor and intaglio in 1935. In 1933, a solo exhibition of his prints and drawings was held at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, California. That year, Kaufman also became president of the short-lived International Print Guild in New York City. In 1934, he moved to New York, and by 1936 worked for the Works Progress Administration. His work spans portraiture, city scenes from Cleveland and New York, and New England landscapes. Kaufman\u2019s career was tragically cut short by a car accident that resulted from a bridge collapse in 1939.",
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                "birth_year": "1906",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1942-12-02T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "Date unknown",
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        "updated_at": "2026-07-01 19:46:28.097000"
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