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"tombstone": "Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917. Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871\u20131944). Oil on canvas; framed: 139 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (54 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); unframed: 128 x 92.5 cm (50 3/8 x 36 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ettie Stettheimer, 1948.28",
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"title": "Sunday Afternoon in the Country",
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"department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
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"measurements": "Framed: 139 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (54 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 128 x 92.5 cm (50 3/8 x 36 7/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed lower left: \"19 FS 17 [FS in monogram]\"\r\n",
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"title": "Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show",
"description": "Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show. Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY (organizer) (October 29-November 23, 1963).",
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"title": "Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits, and Pageants, 1910-1942",
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"id": 232658,
"title": "Florine Stettheimer",
"description": "Florine Stettheimer. Lenbachhaus, M\u00fcnchen, Germany (organizer) (September 27, 2014-January 4, 2015).",
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"description": "New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Florine Stettheimer (1946); traveled to Chicago, Arts Club (1947); to San Francisco, De Young Memorial Museum (1947); illus. plate 14, listed p. 54; ownership attributed to Durlacher Bros, New York.",
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"description": "Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (3-27 April 1951), no catalogue but see Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Annual Report, 1951-1952) vol. 31, no. 2, p. 29.",
"opening_date": "1951-04-03T00:00:00"
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"description": "New York, Durlacher Bros., Florine Stettheimer: One Man Show (29 October-23 November 1963).",
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"description": "Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits and Pageants 1910 to 1942 (4 March-27 April 1980); traveled to San Antonio, TX, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (7 July-15 August 1980); to Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College Art Gallery (28 September-9 November 1980); illus. fig. 6, listed. cat. no. 8.",
"opening_date": "1980-03-04T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica (13 July-5 November 1995) illus. p. 36; listed p. 138.",
"opening_date": "1995-07-13T00:00:00"
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"description": "Munich, Germany, Lenbachhaus, Florine Stettheimer (27 September 2014-1 April 2015).",
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"description": "Ettie Stettheimer (Durlacher Brothers, New York), given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "?\u20131948",
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"did_you_know": "Although on her deathbed Florine Stettheimer instructed that all her paintings be destroyed, her family did not grant the wish.",
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"description": "Born into a cosmopolitan German-Jewish family, Florine Stettheimer hosted numerous gatherings for cutting-edge New York cultural figures. These events often provided subject matter for her paintings, as in this rendering of a weekend picnic held at her family\u2019s summer home on the banks of the Hudson River. In the background at the upper right, Stettheimer portrays herself working at her easel, recording the varied activities taking place. Dismissed as not being serious art in their day, almost all her paintings remained unsold when she died. Afterward, her sister Ettie\u2014seen here standing at lower left in a red coat\u2014donated many of them to selected museums, including this work.",
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"citation": "Mulcahy, Susan, \"Why Were So Many Stettheimer Art Works Up for Sale? Not All Were Real,\" New York Times, February 7, 2021.
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"page_number": "P. C-1",
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"citation": "\"Florine Stettheimer,\" Artnews 45 (November 1946).",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 59.",
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"citation": "\"Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1948.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 6 (June 1949): 111-42.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 113",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141566"
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"citation": "Tyler, Parker. Florine Stettheimer: A Life in Art. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 34-36; Mentioned: P. 90, 131-134, 176",
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"citation": "\"Reviews and Previews.\" ARTnews 62, no. 8 (December 1963): 10-14, 50-58, 68.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 13",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cullinan, Helen. \"Art & Artists: Brotherly Love for Sisters.\" The Plain Dealer (June 9, 1974): 16E.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 16E",
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"citation": "Nochlin, Linda. \u201cFlorine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive.\u201d Art in America 68, no. 7 (September 1980): 64\u201383.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 71",
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"citation": "Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York, N.Y.: Abbeville Press, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 507-508, fig. 653",
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"citation": "Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 507-508, fig. 653",
"url": null
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"citation": "Watson, Steven. Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 119",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Watson, Steven. \u201cThree Sisters.\u201d Art & Antiques 9, no. 5 (May 1992): 60\u201367.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 65",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bloemink, Barbara J. The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 77, no. 46",
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"citation": "Winkfield, Trevor. 1996. \u201cVery Rich Hours.\u201d Art in America 84 (July 1996): 64\u201369.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 67",
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"citation": "Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 508-509, fig. 653",
"url": null
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"citation": "Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. Marchel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare : a Biography. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 117-118",
"url": null
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"citation": "Thum, Carol. \"Personal Favorite.\" Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 5 (May 2004): 15.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Mu\u0308hling, Matthias, Karin Althaus, Susanne Bo\u0308ller, Gerrit Jackson, and Florine Stettheimer. Florine Stettheimer. Munich, Germany: Hirmer, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22-23, no. 11",
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"citation": "Brown, Stephen, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Cecily Brown, and Jens Hoffmann. Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 105",
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"citation": "Cristia, Cintia. \"Painting Jazz: Sound, Music, and Rhythm In the Work of Florine Stettheimer.\" In Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism. Irene Gammel, and Suzanne Zelazo, 179-199. Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 187-188, fig. 9.3",
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"citation": "Althaus, Karin, Florine Stettheimer, Susanne Bo\u0308ller, and Russell Stockman. Florine Stettheimer: the great masters of art. 2020, 22.",
"page_number": "Reproduced; p. 22, fig 10.",
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