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"title": "Year in Review: 1977",
"description": "Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).",
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"title": "Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979",
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"title": "Albrecht D\u00fcrer and His Influence",
"description": "Albrecht D\u00fcrer and His Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991).",
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"title": "D\u00fcrer's Women: Images of Devotion and Desire",
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"description": "The Virgin in this small engraving appears monumental against a contemporary view of Nuremberg castle. Although she looks regal, D\u00fcrer underscores her humanity by presenting her in this modern context and by adding commonplace household keys and a money purse at her waist. As she sits serenely, the Christ Child displays an apple to the viewer as a reminder of the past, specifically the Fall of man and his divine role in the redemption of humanity. The arrangement and introspective character of this engraving have been compared to D\u00fcrer\u2019s Melencolia I. Both were finished in the same year as his mother\u2019s death\u2014a difficult time for the artist. As the third of 18 children, of which only three reached adulthood, D\u00fcrer witnessed the particular joys and heartache of motherhood.",
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"citation": "Cowan, Dana. \u201cD\u00fcrer\u2019s Women: Printmaking, feminine authority, and the communication of ideas.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 54, no. 4 (July/August 2014): 10-11.",
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