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    "data": {
        "id": 122736,
        "accession_number": "1942.914",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Pelicans, 1925. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Drypoint; platemark: 7.5 x 10.5 cm (2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.914",
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        "title": "Pelicans",
        "creation_date": "1925",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1925,
        "creation_date_latest": 1925,
        "artists_tags": [
            "May Show",
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
        ],
        "technique": "drypoint",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Drypoint",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Platemark: 7.5 x 10.5 cm (2 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "platemark": {
                "height": 0.075,
                "height_inch": 2,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
                "width": 0.105,
                "width_inch": 4,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.125
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": "20/50",
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Numbered, in graphite, at bottom left: 20/50; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman",
                "inscription_translation": null,
                "inscription_remark": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to Robert Hays Gries",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1942",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": 3
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
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        "did_you_know": "This print was one of Kaufman\u2019s first entries into the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s annual May Show, in 1926.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "While it is unusual to find a pelican near Lake Erie today and would have been even rarer in the 1920s, it is possible that Edwin Kaufman\u2019s inspiration for this work came from Cleveland. It is also possible that, given he was a student at the Cleveland School of Art at the time, he based this print after a work by his teacher Henry Keller or an image from a book. The tightly framed composition removes the birds from nature and places them within the context of an industrial pier.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640490"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1926 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives",
                "page_number": "",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01131"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.914",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries",
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                "id": 15144,
                "description": "Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939)",
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                "qualifier": null,
                "role": "artist",
                "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.",
                "name_in_original_language": null,
                "birth_year": "1906",
                "death_year": "1939",
                "use_in_caption": true,
                "include_extent": false,
                "weight": 1
            }
        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1942-12-02T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1925,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1925",
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        "on_loan": false,
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        "record_type": "object",
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        "has_conservation_images": false,
        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-08-19 21:46:50.622000"
    }
}