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        "tombstone": "Scroll, 1978. Philip Guston (American, 1913\u20131980). Oil on canvas; framed: 203.4 x 244 x 2.5 cm (80 1/16 x 96 1/16 x 1 in.); unframed: 203.4 x 244 cm (80 1/16 x 96 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.212. \u00a9 The Estate of Philip Guston",
        "current_location": "229B Contemporary",
        "title": "Scroll",
        "creation_date": "1978",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1978,
        "creation_date_latest": 1978,
        "artists_tags": [
            "Jewish artists",
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
        ],
        "technique": "oil on canvas",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Framed: 203.4 x 244 x 2.5 cm (80 1/16 x 96 1/16 x 1 in.); Unframed: 203.4 x 244 cm (80 1/16 x 96 1/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "framed": {
                "height": 2.034,
                "height_inch": 80,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625,
                "width": 2.44,
                "width_inch": 96,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625,
                "depth": 0.025,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 The Estate of Philip Guston",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 393229,
                    "title": "Contemporary Installation",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Installation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-04-12T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "\"Selected Acquisitions,\" CMA, 1993.",
                    "opening_date": "1993-01-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
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            {
                "description": "Estate of Musa Guston, New York, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131992",
                "sortorder": null
            },
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1992\u2013",
                "sortorder": 2
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        ],
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        "related_works": [],
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        "did_you_know": "The artist applied oil paint thinly on the upper portion of the work, resulting in a matte appearance, while the glossy area in the middle suggests a thick, wet-on-wet painting technique.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "During the last, most productive decade of Philip Guston\u2019s career, his imagery included ordinary objects such as bottles, books, light bulbs, and shoes\u2014emblematic of art historical, social, and personal experiences. Here a scroll, often associated with the Torah, the book of Jewish law, alludes to Guston\u2019s religious heritage. Isolated against a dark, somber background of turbulent brushstrokes, the scroll has been unrolled to reveal thick hatchings that suggest a text.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60476812"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Dabrowski, Magdalena. <em>The Drawings of Philip Guston</em>. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988.",
                "page_number": "41",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Ashton, Dore. <em>A Critical Study of Philip Guston</em>. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1990.",
                "page_number": "188",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1992.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38\u201379.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 66",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Franklin, David. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 76 - 77",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Godfrey, Mark. \"Jewish Image-Maker.\" In <em>Philip Guston Now. </em>Harry Cooper, ed., 192-203. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2020.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 193-194, fig. 1",
                "url": ""
            }
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.212",
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        "creditline": "Bequest of Musa Guston",
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        "gallery_donor_text": "Paula and Eugene Stevens Gallery",
        "athena_id": 156495,
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                "description": "Philip Guston (American, 1913\u20131980)",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1992-10-19T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1978,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1978",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:41.572000"
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