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"title": "May Milton",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
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"title": "Printing in Color",
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"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
"description": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).",
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"title": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007).",
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"did_you_know": "May Milton was the romantic partner of May Belfort, another performer whom Toulouse-Lautrec frequently depicted.",
"description": "Posters grew in popularity after 1881, when many restrictions on their placement were lifted and it became unlawful to remove or destroy them. The first exhibition of posters took place in 1884, and they were soon accepted as a legitimate art form. Lautrec, a gifted draftsman, excelled at designing arresting lithographs. May Milton, one of his boldest compositions, illustrates Lautrec's innovative style based on a dynamic pattern of flat, simplified, brightly colored shapes and dramatic silhouettes. Lautrec, an astute observer of character and physical features, captured the life of a decadent era in his radically concise, vigorous representations. May Milton was an English dancer who appeared at the Moulin Rouge, one of Paris's most popular caf\u00e9-concerts. This poster was made to advertise her tour of the United States.",
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \"Inventive Impressions.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 41, no. 6 (Summer 2001): 8-9.",
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