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"tombstone": "Sunset over the Lake, probably after 1920. Emil Nolde (German, 1876\u20131956). Watercolor; sheet: 34.5 x 47.6 cm (13 9/16 x 18 3/4 in.); secondary support: 38.7 x 54.9 cm (15 1/4 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnels in memory of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1959.83",
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"measurements": "Sheet: 34.5 x 47.6 cm (13 9/16 x 18 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 38.7 x 54.9 cm (15 1/4 x 21 5/8 in.)",
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"title": "The Vocabulary of Prints",
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"title": "National Schools of Style",
"description": "National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1983-06-14T04:00:00"
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"id": 299699,
"title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
"description": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).",
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"description": "(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, New York, sold to Mr. Clive Runnels)",
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"description": "Emil Nolde\u2019s watercolors encapsulate the Expressionists\u2019 quest for spontaneity and immediacy, and for painting by instinct rather than by adhering to traditional landscape structure. Throughout his life, Nolde made watercolors depicting the coast of the North Sea near his home. He used vivid colors to transform reality\u2014evident in the three watercolors on view here\u2014hoping to reveal nature\u2019s power and magnetism. Working outdoors, Nolde considered his watercolors to be collaborations with nature: \u201cI painted the white snow as it fell, and the finished or half-finished pictures lay around covered by the snow itself. . . . I loved to find nature collaborating in this way\u2014a natural unity embracing the painter, his subject and the picture.\u201d",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d July 20, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0413"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d July 24, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0416"
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"citation": "S. E. L. \u201cYear in Review.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 210\u2013231.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 221; Mentioned: p. 231",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142366"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:49:40.241000"
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