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"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
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"description": "CMA; Brooklyn (N.Y.) Museum of Art; St. Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-81; Mar. 7-June 7, 1981; July 23-Sep. 27, 1981; Nov. 5, 1981-Jan. 4, 1982), no. 176, illus.",
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"description": "CMA, Year in Review for 1978 (Feb. 13-Mar. 18, 1979), cma Bulletin 66 (1979), p. 44 no. 68, illus. p. 20.",
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