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                "inscription": "Signed lower right: Malcolm Brown",
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                    "title": "The May Show: 72nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve",
                    "description": "<i>The May Show: 72nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 5, 1993).",
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                "description": "Purchased by Mary Pellegrini, Cleveland Heights, OH, from the 1993 May Show",
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        "did_you_know": "In 1980, Malcolm Brown and his wife Ernestine opened the Malcolm Brown Gallery in Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of the first Black-owned fine art galleries in the US.",
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        "description": "Part of a recent series of paintings depicting musical performances, <em>Groovin'</em> by Malcolm Brown uses improvisatory drawing and explosive color to express the speed, rhythm, and energy of jazz. \"Art,\" Brown has written, \"is the window through which I share my artistic vision and emotion. . . . My aim is to capture the flavor of time and space with spontaneous color nuances.\"",
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                "citation": "Malcolm M. Brown Entry Card to 1993 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "citation": "\u201c1993 Annual Report.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143\u2013218.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 162",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457"
            },
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                "citation": "\"New on View: Toby's Gallery for Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): Back cover.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:45.836000"
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