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        "id": 136484,
        "accession_number": "1960.58",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "The Surge, 1958. Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913\u20132000). Oil and collage on canvas; unframed: 137.1 x 180.3 cm (54 x 71 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960.58",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "The Surge",
        "creation_date": "1958",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1958,
        "creation_date_latest": 1958,
        "artists_tags": [
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "oil and collage on canvas",
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        "department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
        "collection": "American - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Unframed: 137.1 x 180.3 cm (54 x 71 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "unframed": {
                "height": 1.371,
                "width": 1.803
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        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "signed lower right:  Marca-Relli; signed on back of stretcher:  L-6-58.",
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                "inscription_remark": null,
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            }
        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 302007,
                    "title": "Paths of Abstract Art",
                    "description": "<i>Paths of Abstract Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960).",
                    "opening_date": "1960-10-05T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 302015,
                    "title": "Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).",
                    "opening_date": "1960-11-30T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 300779,
                    "title": "Juxtapositions",
                    "description": "<i>Juxtapositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).",
                    "opening_date": "1965-09-11T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 517582,
                    "title": "Marca-Relli",
                    "description": "<i>Marca-Relli</i>. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 3-November 12, 1967); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (December 3, 1967-January 28, 1968).",
                    "opening_date": "1967-10-03T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 301294,
                    "title": "Works from the Contemporary Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Works from the Contemporary Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).",
                    "opening_date": "1969-07-01T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA:  Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969",
                    "opening_date": "1969-10-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc.)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "The artist changed his surname from Marcarelli, feeling that an added hyphen made it easier to pronounce.",
        "description": "At the time Conrad Marca-Relli created <em>The Surge</em>, he held a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley. This painting, which drew inspiration from the Pacific coast, is made from cut-out shapes of fabric, some overlapping, that adhere to a backing canvas.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60465797"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Henning, Edward. \"Exhibition Paths of Abstract Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>47, no. 8 (October 1960): 199-201.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 200-201, fig. 1",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142412"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisition Press Release,\u201d October 25, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0628"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.58",
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        "creditline": "Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 136484,
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                "description": "Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913\u20132000)",
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                "birth_year": "1913",
                "death_year": "2000",
                "use_in_caption": true,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1961-12-29T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1958,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1958",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:05:05.015000"
    }
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