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"title": "L'art aux Pays-Bas au XXeme siecle",
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"title": "Mondrian / De Stijl ",
"description": "Mondrian / De Stijl . Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (organizer) (December 1, 2010-March 21, 2011).",
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"id": 200463,
"title": "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s",
"description": "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).",
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"id": 361598,
"title": "Mondrian and De Stijl",
"description": "Mondrian and De Stijl. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00cda, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (November 10, 2020-March 1, 2021) https://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/mondrian-stijl.",
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"description": "Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (12/1/2010 - 3/21/2011): \"Mondrian / De Stijl\"Mondrian\", p. 236.",
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"description": "J. J. P. Oud, Wassenaar (1955). (E. V. Thaw).",
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"description": "During the 1910s, Piet Mondrian\u2019s art progressed from Cubism to an increasingly abstract style based on the form of a grid. He completely abandoned the representation of natural appearances, limiting himself to horizontal and vertical rectangles and three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) along with black and white. Intensely intellectual and deeply philosophical, Mondrian believed that following the devastation of World War I, such abstract compositions could contribute to a more harmonious society by communicating in a universal, visual language.",
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"citation": "Kupka, Frank, Paul Klee, Larry Poons, Richard Hunt, and Edward B. Henning. \u201cA Group of Twentieth-Century Works of Art Recently Acquired.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 4 (April 1970): 107\u2013126.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 106-107, fig. 2",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152324"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPablo Picasso: Bouteille, Verre, et Fourchette.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 7 (September 1972): 195\u2013203.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 199-201, fig. 14",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152438"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPlanes, Structure, Color, and Content.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 7 (September 1974): 223\u2013239.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p . 230-231, fig. 15",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152534"
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"citation": "Diller, Burgoyne, Leon Polk Smith, and Edward B. Henning. \u201cTwo New Paintings in the Neo-Plastic Tradition.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 4 (April 1975): 106\u2013119.",
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"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152584"
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \u201cRecent Paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and Jack Tworkov.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 2 (February 1980): 31\u201340.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 34",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159661"
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \u201cEight New Photographs.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (February 1981): 51\u201362.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 57, fig. 8",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159712"
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"citation": "Landau, Ellen G. \u201c\u2018Space and Pictorial Life\u2019 Hans Hofmann\u2019s \u2018Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow.\u2019\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 5 (September 1985): 310\u2013322.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 320, fig. 18",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159910"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.",
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"citation": "Neet, Jane. \u201cMondrian\u2019s \u2018Chrysanthemum.\u2019\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 7 (September 1987): 282\u2013303.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 283, fig. 1",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159997"
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"citation": "Foster, Carter, \"A Drawing by Myron Stout\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 02, February 2002",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-02/page/n5"
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"citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland 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.",
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"citation": "Gemeentemuseum ('s-Gravenhage). Mondriaan. 1955.",
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"citation": "Janssen, Hans. Mondrian & De Stijl. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofi\u0301a, 2020.",
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"citation": "Park, J. P. \"Pastmodern: The Traditions of the Avant-Garde in Early Asian Art.\" Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 87 (February 14, 2023): 43-57.",
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