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"tombstone": "The Visitor (recto); The Visitor (verso), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844\u20131926). Black and tan pencil; sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fifty Members of The Print Club of Cleveland on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary, 1966.176",
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"title": "Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions",
"description": "Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).",
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"title": "The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review",
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"title": "The Impressionist Aesthetic",
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"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
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"title": "Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot",
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"title": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris",
"description": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).",
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"title": "Mary Cassatt at Work",
"description": "Mary Cassatt at Work. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (May 18-September 8, 2024) https://www.philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/mary-cassatt-at-work.",
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"description": "acquired from artist by Edgar Degas, Paris, c. 1880-1917; [his sale, H\u00f4tel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 November, 1918, no. 82]; Ren\u00e9 de Gas, Paris [all this according to Chicago et. al. 1998]",
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"did_you_know": "This drawing's first owner was the artist Edgar Degas, a friend of Cassatt's and a collaborator in her experiments with etching.",
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"description": "Mary Cassatt produced this sheet as a working drawing for an etching of the same title. She framed the subject's slanted silhouette against the verticals and horizontals of the window, and featured a seated figure in profile in the lower left quadrant of the composition. The bold, dramatic contrasts of sunlight and shadow throughout the room contrast with the delicacy and sensitivity with which the visitor's face were drawn by Cassatt from direct observation.",
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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.",
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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.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \u201cMary Cassatt\u2019s Drawing of the Visitor.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 8 (October 1978): 268\u2013276.",
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"citation": "Cassatt, Mary, Shalini Le Gall, Justin McCann, Justine de Young, and Daniel Harkett. Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. 2021, 24.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced, p. 24, fig. 7",
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"citation": "Thompson, Jennifer A., and Laurel Garber. Mary Cassatt at Work. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 184, fig. 102a & b",
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