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"tombstone": "Necklace, 1953. John Paul Miller (American, 1918\u20132013). Gold; overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.); pendant: 7 x 4.6 cm (2 3/4 x 1 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Silver Jubilee Treasure Fund, 1953.181",
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"title": "Necklace",
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"male",
"Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)",
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"department": "Decorative Art and Design",
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"type": "Jewelry",
"measurements": "Overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.); Pendant: 7 x 4.6 cm (2 3/4 x 1 13/16 in.)",
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{
"id": 383020,
"title": "The May Show: 35th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 35th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 14, 1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-05-06T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 701740,
"title": "Craftsmanship in a Changing World",
"description": "Craftsmanship in a Changing World. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (organizer) (September 29-November 4, 1956).",
"opening_date": "1956-09-29T04:00:00"
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"id": 702409,
"title": "Work of John Paul Miller",
"description": "Work of John Paul Miller. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (March 1-April 20, 1957).",
"opening_date": "1957-03-01T05:00:00"
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"title": "Contemporary Crafts from Museum Collections",
"description": "Contemporary Crafts from Museum Collections. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (organizer) (September 25-November 30, 1958).",
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"id": 515620,
"title": "Exhibition of Crafts",
"description": "Exhibition of Crafts. The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA (organizer) (April 4-May 1, 1965).",
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"id": 301224,
"title": "May Show Retrospective - 50 Years",
"description": "May Show Retrospective - 50 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968).",
"opening_date": "1968-04-23T05:00:00"
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"id": 302646,
"title": "A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975",
"description": "A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-August 21, 1977).",
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"id": 311444,
"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
"description": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"
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"id": 197431,
"title": "The Jewelry of John Paul Miller",
"description": "The Jewelry of John Paul Miller. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 13, 2010-January 2, 2011).",
"opening_date": "2010-06-15T00:00:00"
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"id": 232050,
"title": "Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art & Design",
"description": "Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art & Design. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (organizer) (October 11, 2011-January 15, 2012); Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (February 25-May 20, 2012).",
"opening_date": "2011-10-11T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 441481,
"title": "Gallery One 2012",
"description": "Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"
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"description": "Fine Arts Center, Indiana University, IN (2/2/1959 - 2/25/1959), Newcomb College, Tulane University, LA (3/10/1959 - 2/31/1959); \"The Medieval Craftsman and his Modern Counterpart\" cat. no. 11g",
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"description": "CMA 2010: \"The Jewerly of John Paul Miller\" (6/15/2010- 1/2/2011), no catalogue",
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"description": "Museum of Arts and Design (10/11/2011 - 1/15/2012) and Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, NY (2/25/2012 - 5/20/2012): \"Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art & Design\"), ex. cat. no. 165, p. 218.",
"opening_date": "2011-10-11T00:00:00"
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"description": "Designer-Craftsmen, U.S.A. 1953, The Brooklyn Museum (10/22/1953-12/30/1953); Art Institute of Chicago (03/15/1954-04/26/1954).",
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"description": "John Paul Miller's fascination with jewelry technique emerged in his groundbreaking rediscovery in the early 1950s of granulation, an ancient, forgotten technique of fusing gold beads to a gold surface without using solder. The fleeting creatures of earth, sea, and sky, such as the insect on this necklace, became his muses, inspiring a body of work full of curiously textured forms.",
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"citation": "John Paul Miller Entry Card to 1953 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS10003/"
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"citation": "Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 63, no. 70; Mentioned: P. 80, no. 70",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 150",
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"citation": "John Paul Miller collection. 1850-2010, bulk 1940-2000. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/JohnPaulMiller"
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"citation": "Channing, Laurence, \"Before Neo: The May Show\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-07/page/8"
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