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"title": "Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition",
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"description": "Boston, Copley Hall, Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell (May, 1912), cat. no. 27.",
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"description": "San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), cat. no. 3958.",
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"description": "Located in New Castle, New Hampshire, Bos\u2019n\u2019s Hill was a favored leisure spot for Tarbell\u2019s family, which included four children. It provides the luminous setting for this depiction of the artist\u2019s wife, Emeline, who strolls through the landscape with a parasol to protect her from the sun, while a beloved pet dog accompanies her. Four years later, the couple purchased a summer house nearby.",
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