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"did_you_know": "Look closely at the field across from the windmill: white linens are naturally bleached in the sun, a process that would have taken several months.",
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"description": "Even this early work by Jacob van Ruisdael\u2014painted while he was still a teenager\u2014shows his unique approach to landscape that made the simplest motifs seem grand and heroic. Dark forms are massed in the foreground, creating a stark contrast to the expansive, sunlit plain at left.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 95",
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"citation": "Walford, E. John. Jacob Van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 34; p. 56, fig. 34 (detail)",
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"citation": "\"1992 Annual Report.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418"
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"citation": "Kretzschmar, Sabine, \"Carefully Observed Terrain\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-08/page/6"
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"citation": "Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145, fig. 127",
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"citation": "Sitt, Martina. P. Biesboer, and Karsten Mu\u0308ller. Jacob van Ruisdael: die Revolution der Landschaft. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders, 2002.",
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"citation": "Keyes, George S. Masters of Dutch Painting: Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, in association with D Giles Ltd., London, 2004.",
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"citation": "Wiemann, Elsbeth, Jenny Gaschke, and Mona Stocker. Die Entdeckung der Landschaft: Meisterwerke der Niederla\u0308ndischen Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Ko\u0308ln, Germany: DuMont, 2005.",
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"citation": "Donley, Gregory M., \"World Travelers\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 01, January 2006",
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"citation": "Harris, Ann Sutherland. Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture. London, United Kingdom: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2008.",
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"citation": "Slive, Seymour. Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.",
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"citation": "Arikawa, Haruo. \"Dutch Landscapes Revisited.\" Zurich studies in the history of art 19 (2012): 269-323.",
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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.",
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"citation": "White, Christopher. Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London: Royal Collection Trust, 2015.",
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