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"inscription": "Signed and dated, in plate, at lower right: KAUFMAN 26; titled, in graphite, at bottom left: Loading Hay; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman",
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"title": "The May Show: 9th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 9th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 5, 1927).",
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"did_you_know": "Kaufman continued to create scenes of everyday life during his 1929 studies in Europe, and they appeared in the Cleveland News several times upon his return.",
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"description": "In this image, two laborers are at work, but beyond the few hints of windows on either side of the figures, the location remains unidentifiable. The lack of a defined setting in this print is unusual in Edwin Kaufman\u2019s work, which usually includes landscapes that extend to the margins of his plate. The dominating blank space here emphasizes the action of the laborers and the bulk of their cart.",
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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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