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"id": 304210,
"title": "What Was the Armory Show?",
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"title": "The Painterly Print",
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"title": "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917",
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"id": 223825,
"title": "On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre and Film in Early 20th-century American Art",
"description": "On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theatre and Film in Early 20th-century American Art. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (organizer) (April 27-August 4, 2002); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 8-April 20, 2003).",
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"id": 203146,
"title": "Monotypes: Painterly Prints",
"description": "Monotypes: Painterly Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 31-October 11, 2015).",
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"title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
"description": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
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"description": "Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Wilson, Canton, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"did_you_know": "To make this monotype, John Sloan covered a printing plate with ink and wiped it away in areas to create an image, a technique called \"dark-field manner.\"",
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"description": "The opera houses, symphony halls, and theaters constructed in the first quarter of the 1900s in America\u2019s cities accommodated increasingly large audiences and constituted a new realm of \u201chigh\u201d culture. This print records John Sloan\u2019s first experience with opera: likely that of Tannh\u00e4user or Louise, both of which he saw with his wife, Dolly, in February 1909. To make this monotype\u2014a unique image printed from a design made on a printing plate\u2014Sloan manipulated and wiped black and green ink to evoke the effects of artificial lighting on a darkened interior, focusing more attention on the crowd than on the performance itself.",
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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. 357",
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \u201cUnique Prints. The museum collection contains a wealth of monotypes, one-off prints that embody creative exploration.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 3 (May/June 2015): 6-8.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7; Mentioned: p. 7, 8",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-03"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:49:43.006000"
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