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"tombstone": "Relational Painting Tondo No. 12, 1949. Fritz Glarner (American, born Switzerland, 1899\u20131972). Oil on masonite panel; framed: 46.5 x 45.5 x 6.5 cm (18 5/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.4",
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"title": "Relational Painting Tondo No. 12",
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"measurements": "Framed: 46.5 x 45.5 x 6.5 cm (18 5/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Diameter: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed lower right: Glarner 49 \r\nWritten on back: Tondo No. 12 Paris 1949",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
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"title": "Mondrian and American Abstraction",
"description": "Mondrian and American Abstraction. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (March 31-May 13, 1973).",
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"title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).",
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"description": "MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): \"The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no. 86, p. 121, color repr. p. 33.",
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"description": "G. David Thompson (1899\u20131965), Pittsburgh, PA.",
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"did_you_know": "Fritz Glarner painted a large mural for the Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Library at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.",
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"description": "During the mid-1900s, Swiss-born American artist Fritz Glarner launched a series of geometric abstractions that he called Relational Paintings. These works feature blocks and wedges of solid color with varying width. Occasionally the artist used a round format, as is the case here. He labeled these paintings tondos, an Italian term describing a circular work of art.",
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"citation": "\u201cYear in Review.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302\u2013346.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 346, no. 135; Reproduced: p. 329",
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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.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 106-107, fig. 2",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152584"
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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. 286, fig. 6",
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