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        "accession_number": "1950.203",
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        "tombstone": "Small Worlds: Small Worlds II, 1922. Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866\u20131944). Color lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1950.203. \u00a9  Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Small Worlds II",
        "series": "Small Worlds",
        "creation_date": "1922",
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        "department": "Prints",
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9  Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301187,
                    "title": "Contemporary Art Exhibit",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Art Exhibit</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 31, 1958).",
                    "opening_date": "1958-11-11T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 304733,
                    "title": "Space and Modern Art",
                    "description": "<i>Space and Modern Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 25, 1966).",
                    "opening_date": "1966-06-09T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 301359,
                    "title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
                    "description": "<i>The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).",
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                },
                {
                    "id": 309859,
                    "title": "Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925",
                    "description": "<i>Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).",
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                },
                {
                    "id": 310264,
                    "title": "Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War",
                    "description": "<i>Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10, 1989-January 7, 1990).",
                    "opening_date": "1989-10-10T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 318307,
                    "title": "A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland",
                    "description": "<i>A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).",
                    "opening_date": "2019-05-05T04:00:00"
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            {
                "description": "(Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "after 1922-1950",
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                "description": "Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1950",
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                "date": "1950-",
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        "did_you_know": "Vassily Kandinsky trained and worked as a lawyer before beginning his artistic career at age 30.",
        "description": "The title of this print suggests both its cosmic imagery and Vassily Kandinsky\u2019s exploration of various printmaking techniques\u2014each offering their own world of experimentation\u2014throughout the portfolio <em>Small Worlds.</em> The project consisted of etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs that each emphasized the unique qualities of the process used to make them. The bright, flat tones of this color lithograph relate to Kandinsky\u2019s work at the Bauhaus, an experimental art school in Germany where he taught color theory beginning in 1922.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79907551"
            ],
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Roethel 165",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.203",
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        "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland",
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                "description": "Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866\u20131944)",
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                "birth_year": "1866",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1950-06-29T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1922,
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        "date_text": "1922",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Abstraction",
            "Small Worlds II (Kleine Welten II), from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten)"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-20 11:53:10.460000"
    }
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