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        "tombstone": "Rock Carvings: Passage of the Seasons, 1981. Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904\u20131988). Basalt with mineral accretions; part 1: 286.9 cm (112 15/16 in.); part 2: 347.8 cm (136 15/16 in.); part 3: 208.4 cm (82 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund, 1981.46. \u00a9 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "current_location": "NL North Lawn",
        "title": "Rock Carvings: Passage of the Seasons",
        "creation_date": "1981",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Part 1: 286.9 cm (112 15/16 in.); Part 2: 347.8 cm (136 15/16 in.); Part 3: 208.4 cm (82 1/16 in.)",
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            "part 1": {
                "height": 2.869,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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            {
                "inscription": "Initialed on base: \"I.N.\"",
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                {
                    "id": 304599,
                    "title": "The Year in Review for 1981",
                    "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1981</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).",
                    "opening_date": "1982-02-17T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1982:  \"Year in Review 1981\" cat. no. 48",
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            {
                "description": "The Mildred Andrews Fund, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1981\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "This three-part stone sculpture was commissioned for the Cleveland Museum of Art's north lawn in 1981.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Noguchi's use of interesting stones with a minimum of carved manipulation derives in part from Eastern traditions of reverence for the mystic qualities and natural aesthetics of rocks. It also draws from modern art movements in the artist's incorporation of pre-existing and serendipitous formal qualities of the material itself.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780840"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cMonumental Noguchi Sculpture to be Installed at the Cleveland Museum of Art,\u201d March 31, 1981, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr2868"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1981.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39\u201382.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 79, no. 48",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:05.070000"
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