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"description": "Degas Landscapes. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (January 21 - April 3, 1994); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (April 24 - July 3, 1994).",
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"did_you_know": "Edgar Degas made a total of about 60 similarly abstract landscapes using monotype around the time he made this print.",
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"description": "This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.",
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"citation": "Lockhart, Anne I. \u201cThree Monotypes by Edgar Degas.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (November 1977): 299\u2013306.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 305-306, fig. 5",
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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. 214",
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"citation": "Kendall, Richard. Degas Landscapes. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.",
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \"Inventive Impressions.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 41, no.6 (Summer 2001): 8-9.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2001-06/page/n5/mode/2up"
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"citation": "Dumas, Ann. \"Degas, the Secret Landscapist.\" In Ann Dumas, Richard Kendall, et al. Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, 9-31. Exh. Cat. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2006.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 356",
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"citation": "Beyer, Jonas. \"Movement and Landscape.\" In Degas: A Strange New Beauty. Jodi Hauptman, 176-201. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2016.",
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"citation": "Munro, Jane. \"Nature and Landscape.\" In Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Jane Munro, Richard Kendall, Timothy J. Standring, Jill DeVonyar, Victoria Avery, Jo Dillon, and Anna Gruetzner, 116-135. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.",
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