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"title": "Tall Clock",
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"title": "Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church",
"description": "Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (December 12, 2014-February 29, 2016).",
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"did_you_know": "Associated Artists assembled this clock using imported carved wood panels from India. For an American owner, the motifs suggested decorative styles from faraway places.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1992.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"An Indo-American Tall Clock.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993): 170-73.",
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