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"tombstone": "Gloria, 1956. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925\u20132008). Oil, fabric, staples, newspaper, graphite on paper, printed paper, and printed reproduction on canvas ; unframed: 170.5 x 163.4 x 4.5 cm (67 1/8 x 64 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, 1966.333. \u00a9 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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"department": "American Painting and Sculpture",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 170.5 x 163.4 x 4.5 cm (67 1/8 x 64 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.)",
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"id": 301129,
"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
"description": "Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"
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"title": "Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Robert Rauschenberg",
"description": "Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Robert Rauschenberg. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1070 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (February 23-April 7, 1968); Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (April 19-May 26, 1968); Mus\u00e9e d'Art Moderne de Paris, 75116 Paris, France (June 7-July 14, 1968).",
"opening_date": "1968-02-23T05:00:00"
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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).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"
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"id": 204152,
"title": "Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison",
"description": "Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-October 25, 2015).",
"opening_date": "2015-07-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): March 24, 2009 - September 11, 2009; June 25, 2012 - November 19, 2012.",
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"did_you_know": "Rauschenberg changed his first name from Milton to Robert because he thought it sounded more artistic.",
"description": "Gloria exemplifies Rauschenberg\u2019s compositions that combine ephemera and abstract painting. By juxtaposing newspaper clippings (several of New York socialite Gloria Vanderbilt), a photograph, printed cardboard, and passages of paint, Rauschenberg dismissed traditional hierarchies of artistic materials while blurring boundaries between everyday life and art. As he once proclaimed, \u201cA pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil, and fabric.\u201d",
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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. 203",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n227"
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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. 4",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5"
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"citation": "\u201cRobert Rauschenberg, Gloria.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 2 (February 1969): 72\u201377.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 72-77",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152257"
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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. 255",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n275"
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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. 61",
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},
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"citation": "Joseph, Branden W. \"Disparate Visual Facts: Early Combines.\" In Robert Rauschenberg. Leah Dickerman, and Achim Borchardt-Hume, p. 138-161. New York: The Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 158, fig. 105",
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"citation": "Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. \"Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art.\" CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 86",
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"citation": "Rauschenberg, Robert, Leo Castelli, and Fundaci\u00f3n Juan March. Bob Y Leo: Una Conversaci\u00f3n Entre Robert Rauschenberg Y Leo Castelli. Edited by In\u00e9s Vallejo and Luc\u00eda Montes S\u00e1nchez. Primera edici\u00f3n. Ibarrangelu, Bizkaia, Madrid: Caniche; Fundaci\u00f3n Juan March, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 36-37, fig. 14",
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