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"tombstone": "Sleeper I, 1958. Philip Guston (American, 1913\u20131980). Oil on canvas; framed: 170 x 195 x 4.5 cm (66 15/16 x 76 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 168.2 x 193 cm (66 1/4 x 76 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.21. \u00a9 The Estate of Philip Guston",
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"description": "Philip Guston\u2019s working method at the time he created Sleeper I entailed a progression from relying on accidental effects to being more deliberate; in his words, \u201cThe air of arbitrary vanishes and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.\u201d",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cReconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 8 (October 1973): 235\u201341.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cNew Paintings by Four Artists from Britain.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 10 (December 1982): 311\u201323. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159795.",
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