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"tombstone": "Pine Tree, c. 1897. Giovanni Segantini (Italian, 1858\u20131899). Oil on canvas; framed: 149.5 x 84.8 x 4.1 cm (58 7/8 x 33 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.); unframed: 135.2 x 72 cm (53 1/4 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1982.124",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1982",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
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"description": "Esposizione di alcune opere di G. Segantini. Milan, Italy (1899).",
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"description": "Giovanni Segantini Ged\u00e4chtnis-Ausstellung. Saint Moritz., Switzerland (1949).",
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"In 1880 Segantini achieved some financial security when art dealer, critic, and painter Vittore Grubicy began buying his work. Grubicy helped support Segantini, and within three years, the artist had signed an exclusive contract with Grubicy. Their relationship ended in 1891 after a conflict between Vittore and his brother, Alberto, over how to manage the gallery. Segantini sided with Alberto, who had been controlling the financial aspects of Segantini\u2019s contract with the gallery since 1886.
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"description": "Oscar Bernhard [1861-1939], Samaden/St. Moritz, probably by descent to his daughter, Annigna Petitpierre-Bernhard",
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"Bernhard, a friend of Segantini\u2019s since 1894, was patron of the artist, as well as his physician when he came down with a fatal case of peritonitis in 1899. In 1908 Bernhard cofounded the Segantini museum in St. Moritz.
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"did_you_know": "The bottom right portion of this painting was left unfinished; the earth-red ground layer is still visible.",
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"description": "Segantini painted this view of a pine tree in the Swiss Alps with his distinctive combination of brilliant colors applied in small, broken strokes. Rather than a direct transcription of nature, the extreme close-up view and the flat, decorative space are designed to arouse an emotional response. Finding spiritual consolation in the lush forests and clear light around his home in the Alps, Segantini wrote: \u201cI am now working passionately to wrest the secret of Nature\u2019s spirit from her. Nature utters the eternal word to the artist: love, love; and the earth sings life in spring, and the soul of things reawakens.\u201d",
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"citation": "Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Segantini: catalogo generale. Milano: Electa, 1982.",
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"citation": "Grubicy, Alberto, and Mario Morasso. Catalogo delle mostre coll. ve Segantini [e] Previati; mon. to a Segantini di Leo. Bistolfi. [Milano]: [Tip. L.F. Cogliati], 1906.",
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"citation": "Arcangeli, Francesco, and Maria Cristina Gozzoli. L'opera completa di Segantini. Milano: Rizzoli, 1973.",
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"citation": "Fiori, Teresa. Archivi del divisionismo 2. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1968.",
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Arcangeli, Francesco, and Maria Cristina Gozzoli. L'opera completa di Segantini. Milano: Rizzoli, 1973.
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"citation": "Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Segantini: catalogo generale. Milano: Electa, 1982.",
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"citation": "Arcangeli, Francesco, and Maria Cristina Gozzoli. L'opera completa di Segantini. Milano: Rizzoli, 1973.",
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"citation": "Locatelli-Milesi, Achille. L'Oeuvre de Giovanni Segantini. Paris: Soc. Dante Alighieri, 1907.",
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"citation": "Montandon, Marcel. Segantini. Bielefeld, Germany: Velhagen & Klasing, 1925.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 119, fig. 105",
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"citation": "Nicodemi, Giorgio. Giovanni Segantini. Milano: L'Arte, 1956.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 225, no. 9",
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"citation": "Fiori, Teresa. Archivi del Divisionismo. Roma, Italy: Officina Edizioni, 1968.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 442",
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"citation": "Gozzoli, Maria Cristina. L'opera completa di Segantini. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1973.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 392",
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"citation": "Lu\u0308thy, Hans A., and Corrado Maltese. Giovanni Segantini. Zu\u0308rich, Switzerland: Orell Fu\u0308ssli Verlag, 1981.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 129",
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"citation": "Quinsac, Annie-Paule, and Giovanni Segantini. Segantini: catalogo generale. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1982.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 530, vol. II",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Year in Review for 1982.\"The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXX, no. 1 (January, 1983):3-55.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 17, Mentioned: p. 51, no. 32",
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"citation": "Sackerlotzky, Rotraud. \"Giovanni Segantini: Stone Pine and Alpine Roses.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXIII, no. 1 (January, 1986): 2-13.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cover, p.2",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159926"
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"citation": "Bauman, Felix, Guido Magnaguagno, and Daniela Tobler. Giovanni Segantini, 1858-1899: Kunsthaus Zu\u0308rich, 9. November 1990-3. Februar 1991. Zu\u0308rich, Switzerland: Das Kunsthaus, 1990.",
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 220",
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"citation": "D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 584-589, no. 206",
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"citation": "Echte, Bernhard, and Petra Cordioli. Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: die Ausstellungen 1898-1901 ; [\"das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen\"]. Wa\u0308denswil: Nimbus, Kunst und Bu\u0308cher, 2011.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 316",
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"citation": "Segantini, Diana, Guido Magnaguagno, and Ulf Ku\u0308ster. Segantini. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011.",
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"citation": "Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. \"Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art.\" CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.",
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