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        "tombstone": "Eye, c. 1930. Emily Drayton Taylor (American, 1860\u20131952). Watercolor on ivory; diameter of frame: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1961.330",
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        "title": "Eye",
        "creation_date": "c. 1930",
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        "department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
        "collection": "American - Painting",
        "type": "Portrait Miniature",
        "measurements": "Diameter of frame: 2.4 cm (15/16 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 302279,
                    "title": "Water Color",
                    "description": "<i>Water Color</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962).",
                    "opening_date": "1962-06-06T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 302276,
                    "title": "Year in Review - 1962",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review - 1962</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).",
                    "opening_date": "1962-10-24T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 311503,
                    "title": "Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America",
                    "description": "<i>Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).",
                    "opening_date": "1993-03-26T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 223530,
                    "title": "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences",
                    "description": "<i>Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences</i>. Montr\u00e9al Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (November 16, 2000-March 18, 2001); Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (June 6-September 24, 2001).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-11-16T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 202388,
                    "title": "Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives",
                    "description": "<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).",
                    "opening_date": "2013-11-10T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 691463,
                    "title": "British Portrait Miniatures: Tokens of Love and Loss",
                    "description": "<i>British Portrait Miniatures: Tokens of Love and Loss</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 18, 2025-February 15, 2026).",
                    "opening_date": "2025-08-18T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, Kansas City, MO, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "1951-1961",
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            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1961-",
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        ],
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        "did_you_know": "Eye miniatures are often called \"lover's eyes\" because they were exchanged as sentimental gifts between significant others.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Most popular around the turn of the 1800s, eye miniatures experienced a revival a century later. Emily Drayton Taylor owned a vintage eye miniature of her grandmother that inspired this work, a close copy. However, she changed the eye color from blue to brown, revealing that it portrays a different individual.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80031046"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Pai\u0308ni, Dominique, and Guy Cogeval. <em>Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences</em>. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2000.",
                "page_number": "repr. p. 212 (center)",
                "url": null
            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr",
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                "description": "Emily Drayton Taylor (American, 1860\u20131952)",
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        "accession_date": "1961-12-02T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "c. 1930",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:49:44.358000"
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