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"description": "Drawing: A Line of Departure. Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH (October 12 - December 15, 1985); Kenneth C. Beck Center, Lakewood, OH (September 7 - November 3, 1986).",
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"description": "After Pierre Lenfant served as the official battlefield artist to King Louis XV in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740\u201348), he and his family were awarded a lifetime residence at the royal Gobelins Manufactory on the outskirts of Paris. This delicate study in colored chalks may depict a weaver pulling threads in the textile factory.",
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