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"title": "Mother and Child",
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"title": "The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz",
"description": "The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 26-March 13, 1955).",
"opening_date": "1955-01-26T05:00:00"
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"title": "Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective",
"description": "Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (December 15, 1989-March 11, 1990).",
"opening_date": "1989-12-15T05:00:00"
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"id": 441598,
"title": "Artlens Exhibition 2019",
"description": "Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).",
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"did_you_know": "Lipchitz began as a Cubist sculptor but moved away from sculptural geometric forms in the 1920s.",
"description": "A child rides on the back of his bird-like mother in this monumental sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz. The motif of mother and child has been explored countless times in art, and is often charged with strong emotion. While at first glance this sculpture may seem tender, the child digs his fingers aggressively into his mother\u2019s breasts. The artist embraced imagery of mothers and children throughout his career, and related his interest in this theme to his relationship with his own mother. This sculpture is subjective, or open to interpretation; while one viewer may see an image of affection, another may see brutality and oppression.",
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"page_number": "cat. no. 56 repr. #336",
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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. 336",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n65"
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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/n222"
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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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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 246",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Motherhood across Time. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
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