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"id": 520810,
"title": "Impressionism and its Roots",
"description": "Impressionism and its Roots. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (organizer) (November 8-December 6, 1964).",
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"title": "The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880 - 1910",
"description": "The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880 - 1910. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (January 15-April 2, 1972).",
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"id": 224230,
"title": "After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting",
"description": "After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (organizer) (November 22, 2003-February 8, 2004); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (March 13-June 6, 2004).",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today (23 June-4 October 1937), cat. no. 83.",
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"description": "San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880-1910 (22 January-2 April 1972), cat. no. 17, not illus.",
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"description": "Cincinnati, The Taft Museum, Night Lights: 19th and 20th Century American Nocturne Paintings (2 May-30 June 1985), illus. p. 12, not numbered.",
"opening_date": "1985-05-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fraternit\u00e9: Artistic Relations Between France and America (21 July-18 October 1987), Gallery A; no cat.",
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"description": "Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, A Nation's Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (19 January-15 March 1992); traveled to Tokyo, The Isetan Museum (9 April-5 May 1992); to Yamaguchi, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art (12 May-21 June 1992); to Fukushima, The Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art (27 June-2 August 1992); to Takamatsu, The Takamatsu City Museum of Art (7 August-6 September 1992); to Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda (23 September-5 October 1992); cat. no. 38, illus. p. 65.",
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"description": "High Museum of Art (11/15/2003 - 2/8/2004) and Detroit Institute of Arts (3/6/2004 - 5/30/2004): \"After Whistler\" exh. cat no. 43, p. 194-195.",
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"citation": "Valance, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne. Nocturne : Night in American Art, 1890-1917. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, pp. 179, 182-83; reproduced, p. 180.",
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"citation": "Davis, John, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason David LaFountain, eds. A Companion to American Art. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 568.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 545",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n101"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n213"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n213"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n254"
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"citation": "Valance, He\u0301le\u0300ne. Nuits ame\u0301ricaines: l'art du nocturne aux E\u0301tats-Unis, 1890-1917. Paris: PUPS, 2015.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 282, fig. 126",
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},
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"citation": "Clayson, Hollis. Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle E\u0301poque. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 151, fig. 5.15",
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