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"tombstone": "Figure, 1949. Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904\u20131997). Oil on cardboard; framed: 55 x 44.5 x 8 cm (21 5/8 x 17 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 46.7 x 36.8 cm (18 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.1. \u00a9 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Year in Review (1964)",
"description": "Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1964-12-08T05:00:00"
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"id": 300779,
"title": "Juxtapositions",
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"title": "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series",
"description": "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980).",
"opening_date": "1979-10-26T04:00:00"
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"id": 311444,
"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
"description": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).",
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"id": 227224,
"title": "Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure",
"description": "Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (February 10-April 28, 2002); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (June 27-September 8, 2002); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (September 29, 2002-January 5, 2003).",
"opening_date": "2002-02-10T00:00:00"
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{
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"title": "Willem de Kooning Retrospective",
"description": "Willem de Kooning Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 18, 2011-January 9, 2012).",
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"description": "CMA, December, 1964: \"Year in Review 1964,\" CMA Bulletin LI (December, 1964), p. 266, no. 163.",
"opening_date": "1964-12-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Museum of Art, October 26, 1979 - January 6, 1980: \"Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series,\" catalogue no. 13, reproduced p. 44.",
"opening_date": "1979-10-26T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, November 1, 1983 - January 8, 1984: \"The Figure: deKooning to Warhol,\" no catalogue",
"opening_date": "1983-11-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, June 7 - September 8, 1991: \"Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum,\" no catalogue",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T00:00:00"
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"description": "Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 8 - September 5, 1994: \"Willem de Kooning: Paintings,\" catalogue no. 24, reproduced color p. 123.",
"opening_date": "1994-05-08T00:00:00"
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"description": "Also to: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 6, 1994 - January 8, 1995; London: The Tate Gallery, February 15 - May 7, 1995",
"opening_date": "1995-02-15T00:00:00"
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"description": "Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2/10/02-4/24/02; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 6/15/02-9/8/02; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 9/29/02-1/5/03. \"Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure,\" pl. 27.",
"opening_date": "2002-02-10T00:00:00"
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"description": "Museum of Modern Art, NYC (9/18/2011 - 1/9/2012): \"Willem de Kooning Retrospective\"",
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"did_you_know": "De Kooning once famously stated, \"Flesh was the reason oil painting was invented.\"",
"description": "By using rough, hasty brushstrokes, de Kooning gives us a glimpse into his process. He painted many women during the 1940s and 1950s, each time emphasizing the action of painting in his depictions of the female form.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d February 19, 1964, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr1209"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cThe Language of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 9 (November 1964): 211\u2013231.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 215-217, fig. 2",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 200",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n224"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 200",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n224"
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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.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3/"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 250",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n270"
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"citation": "Landau, Ellen G. \u201c\u2018Space and Pictorial Life\u2019 Hans Hofmann\u2019s \u2018Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow.\u2019\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 5 (September 1985): 310\u2013322.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 311, fig. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159910"
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \u201cAlex Katz\u2019s Impala.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 314\u2013326.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 317, fig. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159954"
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