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"title": "Year in Review - 1962",
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"title": "Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies",
"description": "Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 13-April 19, 2015); Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015).",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cClothed in the Sun: A Buddha and a Surya from Kashmir.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 2 (February 1967): 42\u201363.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 56, fig. 13",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 3",
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"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw. \"A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (October 1988): 298\u2013319.",
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