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        "tombstone": "Window of Unknowing, 1975\u20131976. Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916\u20131992). Oil on canvas; unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Linden Trust, 1983.218. \u00a9 Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Window of Unknowing",
        "creation_date": "1975\u20131976",
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        "measurements": "Unframed: 127 x 181.6 cm (50 x 71 1/2 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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                "inscription": "In black paint on upper left corner of reverse of canvas: R Pousette-Dart 76",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 309669,
                    "title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
                    "description": "<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).",
                    "opening_date": "1984-02-22T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 309861,
                    "title": "Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 26, 1984).",
                    "opening_date": "1984-07-13T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 181802,
                    "title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).",
                    "opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"
                }
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        "description": "Poussette-Dart was an important Abstract Expressionist painter who had a long artistic career. In this painting the extreme thickness of the paint and shifting colors appear to offer a window into a mesmerizing, abstract landscape of dots.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60475208"
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        "citations": [
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                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cYear in Review for 1983.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38\u201379.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 72, no. 102; Reproduced: p. 57",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.",
                "page_number": "p. 122, color repr. p. 99",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:10.927000"
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