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        "accession_number": "1964.110",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Reading in the Subway, 1926. John Sloan (American, 1871\u20131951). Etching; platemark: 12.5 x 10.1 cm (4 15/16 x 4 in.); sheet: 28 x 23.8 cm (11 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection, 1964.110. \u00a9 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Reading in the Subway",
        "creation_date": "1926",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1926,
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Etching",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Platemark: 12.5 x 10.1 cm (4 15/16 x 4 in.); Sheet: 28 x 23.8 cm (11 x 9 3/8 in.)",
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        "state_of_the_work": "III/III",
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 351228,
                    "title": "Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).",
                    "opening_date": "1968-06-11T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 309884,
                    "title": "Urban Vicissitudes",
                    "description": "<i>Urban Vicissitudes</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-September 29, 1985).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-07-02T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 381923,
                    "title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
                    "description": "<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-07-17T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        "did_you_know": "Below this print, Sloan wrote a quote from the poem <em>A Ballad upon a Wedding</em> by the 17th-century English poet Sir John Suckling.",
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        "description": "While etiquette manuals in the Victorian era restricted eye contact between strangers, such strictures were challenged by the culture emerging in New York City in the first decades of the 1900s. Public transportation provided people watching of the type unheard of just decades before\u2014especially of women unaccompanied on their commute to office or retail jobs. Here, John Sloan depicted a woman lost in a book. Her crossed legs and the hint of a garter are on display. Never one to miss an opportunity for cheeky humor, Sloan added an advertisement behind the girl, reading \u201cRub with Sloan\u2019s Ointment.\u201d",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80037784"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [],
        "catalogue_raisonne": "Morse 223",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.110",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection",
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                "description": "John Sloan (American, 1871\u20131951)",
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                "birth_year": "1871",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1964-05-06T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1926,
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        "date_text": "1926",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-08-21 12:43:16.266000"
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