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        "tombstone": "Night Ceremony, 1938, printed 1948. Gustave Baumann (American, born Germany, 1881\u20131971). Color woodcut with aluminum leaf. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.337. \u00a9 Ann Baumann Trust",
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        "title": "Night Ceremony",
        "creation_date": "1938, printed 1948",
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            "America"
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        "technique": "color woodcut with aluminum leaf",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Woodcut",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Ann Baumann Trust",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 324227,
                    "title": "Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts",
                    "description": "<i>Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2020-12-20T05:00:00"
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        "description": "<em>Night Ceremony</em>, one of Gustave Baumann\u2019s very few abstract compositions, represents ornamented fragments of Native American pottery overlaid and jigsawed together. A collector of Native American ceramics, Baumann wrote, \u201cPot shards are a kind of scrambled history of New Mexico with essential words omitted that archaeologists are forever trying to find.\u201d Two blocks were used to print <em>Night Ceremony</em>: one for dark gray and the other for adhesive. While the adhesive was still tacky, thin leaves of aluminum were applied side by side. The gray ink, aluminum leaf, and negative space (the white of the paper) create the image that simulates the jet black and burnished luster of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79946272"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "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. 70",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Chamberlain 156; Acton, Krause & Yurtseven 57",
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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        "date_text": "1938, printed 1948",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:42.786000"
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