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"citation": "Barter, Judith A., Kimberly Rhodes, Seth A. Thayer, and Andrew Walker. American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry H. \u201cA McIntire Chair.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 9 (November 1963): 249\u2013251.",
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